More Than A Magazine, A Movement
“The anti-abortion movement is based on abuse of power, creating lies about how birth control, abortion all actually work,” said Winstead. She’s using humor to point out the hypocrisy and bring people in. After the 2016 election, Lizz Winstead and a band of comics embarked on a journey across the country, visiting abortion clinics and doing abortion comedy—with a film crew in tow.
After we reached out to Lizz and her team and floated the idea to them, I think they were really set. … They were really generous with their accessibility and time and allowing us to organically follow the story.
You see how, throughout the film, you see how we build community, and then you see all the different ways that clinics need support. And then hopefully, you as a person watching this will say, “Oh my god, my skills are XYZ, I’d love to plug in with my skills. And I’d be able to do that at my local clinic.”
That isolation piece was really the catalyst for doing these tours and doing this work because the more that we can help bring community to them and then have them explain to community how they can … is a complete game-changer for how they can be in the world. I don’t want to feel like somebody looks at me like that was a necessary evil and that there was some sort of fault of my own that I that I needed to have an abortion. Or that abortion providers are doing this ugly thing that is just part of what they have to do because people out there are slutty or terrible or whatever. …
Lastly, bringing a bunch of people who are just fun and funny into a clinic to visit with the staff is levity. They need to laugh, and they need joy. … When we do our shows, and the entire staff of a clinic is in that audience, it’s the first time they’ve ever heard anyone clap for them. It’s the first time they’ve heard it, when they heard the name of where they work, be celebrated by the community. It’s very powerful.There is so much activism fatigue, and people are checking out.
So to bring joy, first of all, it was jarring to them. They don’t know how to react to joy because joy means that their bullshit isn’t affecting us. And joy is really infectious and it’s disarming to them, and it’s galvanizing to us. Also … many of them are directly involved in clinic violence, or adjacent to clinic violence, and that’s everything from. And many of them were at the insurrection in on January 6, so there’s a big intersection between the white nationalist movement and the anti-abortion movement. There’s very little space in a Venn diagram in difference between the two. There was an important balance.
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