Emily Nokes is a musician, writer, graphic designer, illustrator, Libra, candy enthusiast, and the singer/tambourinist in the glittery, feminist punk-pop band, Tacocat. Her hobbies include giving pretty good home bang trims, puffy painting, stoned shopping, and taking photos of her son Tinsel, who is a perfect gray kitten. Her work has appeared in Seattle’s alternative weekly the Stranger, where she previously worked as music editor before accepting her current job as music editor at BUST magazine.
Shout Your Abortion
SKU: 9781629635736
Author: Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes • Foreword: Lindy West
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635736
Published: 11/2018
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 8 x 10
Page count: 256
Subjects: Feminism/Health Care
Praise
“Shout Your Abortion reflects what makes me most hopeful for
this next century, that there’s a whole new generation of young people
who refuse to be judged and shamed about who they are, whether it’s
their gender identity, their sexual orientation, or what they do with
their body.”
—Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
“By presenting a collection of nuanced narratives, Shout Your Abortion aims
to advance a message of broader acceptance: If your abortion experience
was hard and sad, that’s okay. If your abortion experience wasn’t hard
or sad, that’s also okay. This marks a significant tonal shift in the
cultural conversation about abortion.”
—Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post
“Shout Your Abortion has altered the landscape. We all knew
that abortion stigma was a central tool in keeping women silent and
isolated. Amelia Bonow busted down that door and women poured through it
like a dam had burst.”
—Martha Plimpton, actor and cofounder of A is For
“Zora Neale Hurston said that if you are silent about your pain, people will kill you and say that you enjoyed it. Shout Your Abortion is reducing pain by helping all to reject stigmatizing abortion silence. That too is life’s work.”
—Dr. Willie Parker, author of Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
“It’s been so inspiring for me to see a woman making that stand,
building the movement, bringing our stories forward…because really, this
is what it’s going to take. It’s going to take all of us. And we will
take the political revolution, with #ShoutYourAbortion and everything
else we’re trying to do, to the U.S. Congress. All of us together.”
—Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Representative for Washington’s 7th District
“Shout Your Abortion
embodies everything that society so desperately craves in this moment:
compassion over cruelty, fact over fiction, and storytelling over
silence. The shared experience of one in four women powerfully
illustrated on these pages is tangible evidence of our collective
strength when we join hands and speak our truth together.”
—Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America
Book Events
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Reviews
- Shout Your Abortion in Staf Magazine (Spanish)
- Jenny Brown picks Shout Your Abortion as her favorite book of the year on Verso Blog
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- The best coffee table book you can buy is about abortion
- The 10 Best Books We Read in 2018
- In the Long Fight for reproductive Justice, Storytelling is a Weapon
- “Shout Your Abortion” is Changing the Conversation
Interviews
- Lindy West on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah— “Counteracting Dangerous Myths with “Shout Your Abortion”
Mentions
- How One Woman Became an Activist With the Hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion
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- Lindy West tells Trevor Noah #ShoutYourAbortion takes back the issue from the “tiny fringe”
- 15 Books to Read About the Abortion Debate
- How Anti-Abortion Rhetoric Shapes Pro-Choice Advocacy