I first realized the maniacal need to control women's desires looking at the inordinate fetuses on the pro-life (anti-choice) posters that covered the walls of my Catholic all-girls high school in the suburbs of Toronto. At every turn a salmon-pink fetus and its dictum hung above me surveilling the gestures of my body to determine if I was worthy of heaven. Although the experiential knowledge of the violent need for men to control women came when I was much younger.
On Abortion
On Abortion
On Abortion
I first realized the maniacal need to control women's desires looking at the inordinate fetuses on the pro-life (anti-choice) posters that covered the walls of my Catholic all-girls high school in the suburbs of Toronto. At every turn a salmon-pink fetus and its dictum hung above me surveilling the gestures of my body to determine if I was worthy of heaven. Although the experiential knowledge of the violent need for men to control women came when I was much younger.