The Women's & Gender Studies presents the second academic talk of the year-long Articulating Abortion series. Artists, writers, performers, and providers represent what abortion looks, sounds, and feels like, and through this work offer a vision for new ways to establish safe and legal abortion access.  In this talk, Professor Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst will examine the radical possibilities of representing abortion as a strategy to counter anti-abortion discourse through a reproductive justice lens.

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research is concerned with the relationships between power, embodiment, and (visual) culture, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought. She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (MQUP, 2015), editor of Representing Abortion (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2013). Her most recent essays have been published in History of Photography, Feminist Studies, Configurations, and Body & Society.

This event will take place in room 4-237 at 4 PM on October 17, 2022. Q+A to follow. All are welcome.