ive tried the national archive but again - i must be doing something wrong...

thank you! i must not be doing something right - i've tried BAILII before but no dice (e.g., the Rex v. Robert Blain is from 1945), i'd be happy to try and go look in person too - i just wouldn't know where to start!

Should say UK-focused right now, but would be happy to learn more generally too.

I think they’re dangerous- and absolute charlatans- but I also think they’re profiting off (and preying on) peoples’ deep fears and experiences of medical neglect and violence

And yes- we do need to confront how fucking neoliberal privatisation and individualisation is at the root of his hellscape. 4/

We do also need to grapple with that in asking why people turn to these charlatans. It’s also so telling that the bare graft of these people functions where people cannot *afford* care- when you are priced out of care let alone empathetic care 3/

For all the advances in medicine and healthcare, for all the midwives and doulas and accompaniers who are providing exemplary care despite creaky underfunded stuck-in-their-ways institutions: birthing can be a horrific, painful, violating process.2/

ok, wow. i did not expect to hear a reference to Club of Rome's 'Limits of Growth' report on this radio show. Demographic anxieties x climate issues are everywhere...

and if you wanted to listen in: lakedistrictradio.org

"because the #2s belong on the radio, not in our lakes"

@eecoast.bsky.social not sure why it didn't tag you! :(

It took a community to bring this work into being: WHW team at the frontlines, Maria Lewandowska's careful translations and notes shaped our corpus, even Reviewer 2 who was the absolute bane of my existence, and my thoughtful, engaged co-authors: I am so lucky to learn from you. 5/5

“Abortion is what makes life liveable in the precarious present whilst enabling possibilities of future lives." Feminist networks like WHW are essential to this political project -nott just a counter to the careless-ness of these infrastructures but clarion call for *collective* feminist care 4/

"I have never been in such a hopeless situation in my life. I even have to borrow money to buy some bread."
We argue that abortion is often a protective act that makes life liveable, thus theorising abortion as a political demand emerging from structurally violent & precarious life conditions.
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We [@eecoast.bsky.social, @joestrong.bsky.social, Footman, @luberropizzarossa.bsky.social, @clarewenham.bsky.social, Jelinska, & I] draw on 8,577 consultations + 80 emails to Women Help Women (Apr–Dec 2020) showing how precarity and structural violence make pregnancy a “cliff edge”.

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