Join us for a conversation with Carmen Winant on occasion of her latest book The Last Safe Abortion, a collective portrait of the ordinary, daily tasks required to provide abortion health care.
Wednesday 4 September
18:00 – 20:00
Printed Matter Chelsea
231 11th Ave
New York
NY 10001
About The Last Safe Abortion
Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognizes the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organizational, and institutional archives from across the Midwest, in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Ohio. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular: women answer the phone, sterilize medical equipment, throw staff birthday parties, offer workshops, and schedule appointments. In centering the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponized photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.
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