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Love Songs to Pig-Cupid: A Collection of Poems on Bodily Autonomy

Annabelle Cormack·
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·May 19, 2023·15 min read
This collection of poems is a glimpse into the lives lived on the margins, where the laws put in place to protect basic rights and bodily autonomy cease to apply.
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Limited (Or No) Reproductive Rights through Generations: This Solitary Choice

Susan Meyers·
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·April 14, 2023·11 min read
The process of seeking pregnancy alone (by necessity, not choice) showed me how limited reproductive rights in the U.S. truly are—even before the recent loss of Roe vs. Wade, that policy that had so shaped my generation’s belief in our bodily autonomy.
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Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: A Poem of Healing

Anastasia Waid·
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·March 20, 2023·4 min read
My poem “Week After” explores my experience with assault, rape, and emotional abuse in a year and a half long relationship with an older man.
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Our Marriage Began in an Epidemic: Autoethnography of a Diagnosis

MC Guerrero·
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·March 5, 2023·15 min read
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
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Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: Poems for an Intimate Secret

H. E. Riddleton·
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·January 19, 2023·14 min read
"My poems for this special issue seek to document a history of my choice, not just personally but humanly, to use autoethnography to weave through the personal and the political."
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Visitation, an Autoethnodrama in One Act

Richard Stimac·
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·December 12, 2022·23 min read
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."
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Autoethnographic Poetry on Bodily Autonomy: Watch the Womb

Regina Garcia·
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·November 10, 2022·8 min read
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
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Surviving Rape and Abuse in an International Marriage

Detroit Richards·
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·October 25, 2022·12 min read
"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."
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From the Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: This Machine Kills Babies

Acadia Currah·
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·October 8, 2022·13 min read
"This essay on bodily autonomy specifically discusses abortion access and rights in the United States and Canada, and the politics that often follow."
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Autoethnographic Poetry, Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: “Damned”

Emily Kiessling·
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·July 12, 2022·3 min read
"Damned," the first publication in The AutoEthnographer's Bodily Autonomy issue, is the product of my confused reflection and internal conversations with the culture that raised me."
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