The essay collection I Know What's Best For You asks 'Who gets to choose their reproductive future?'
edited by Shelly Oria, is a direct response to the reproductive freedom crisis in this country. A multi-genre collection from 28 writers and artists, the book is an enormous range of experiences and identities. There’s no single valid way to summarize this crisis. But one approach is through the wide-ranging works of art—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, comics, plays—that appear in the book. Here, Oria and contributing essayist Onnesha Roychoudhuri speak on why that matters.
Writing the essay made me realize that in the rush to think of myself as someone who “didn’t have it that bad,” and with the willfulness of someone who wants to believe that all my decisions and choices wereand mine alone, I had denied the impact of some pretty important experiences that have shaped who I am and what I believed was possible for my body.
We failed to point to the more systemic issues underlying the problem of rampant sexual assault in our society; we failed to truly and boldly name how insidious gender-based violence is. We can’t skip that step and fix that problem by catching all the men and punishing them one by one. And what a strange coincidence, isn’t it—that it’s that same society that’s also trying to control womxn’s bodies in this other way, by forcing them to stay pregnant when they don’t wish to.
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