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5.12.15

Carafem

That’s one of the advertising slogans used by Carafem, an abortion clinic opening this week just outside of Washington, D.C. The clinic plans to approach abortion as a straightforward part of women’s health care, hoping to make the procedure a streamlined process that is easy to access.

Carafem will provide the abortion pill to women who are less than 10 weeks pregnant. Patients will be able to book appointments — offered on evenings and weekends, as well as during weekdays — through an online portal or via a 24-hour hotline manned by multilingual staff members. The clinic also promises a short procedure time of around one hour, and a lower-than-average price point of approximately $400 for an abortion.

How This D.C.-Area Clinic Wants To ‘De-Medicalize’ Abortion

ICARUS AND I ARE SO PROUD TO TELL YOU THAT I’M PUBLISHING A BOOK!!!!

Ok, so maybe icarus is less excited than me, but YOU ALL should be SO EXCITED!!!

The book will be YOUR QUESTIONS and MY ANSWERS and art by tons of AWESOME ARTISTS.

Can you imagine - a health and sex-ed book written by someone who believes that your body is inherently good, worthy, and deserving?

Can you imagine - a health book with pictures of bodies LIKE YOURS.  Bodies that aren’t just white, cis, able-bodied, skinny, and hetero??  Bodies that ACTIVELY SUBVERT THAT IMAGE OF THE “NORM”.

Can you imagine - a sex-ed book that is sex-positive, respectful, and straight forward?  A sex-ed book that gives you all the info you never learned in health class - the stuff you WANTED to know.

Can you imagine - a health book with art by tons of different artists, artists from different cultures and backgrounds and genders and races and ethnicities?  Artists who are just as varied and talented as you all?

DO YOU SEE ITS CONNA BE AMAZING?!!

Now here comes the plea.  I write this blog all on my lonesome, for free, in my after-work time, WHICH IS FINE AND I LOVE IT.  Buuttttttt, I can’t ask the incredible and talented artists I’m working with to do the same.  This is the first time I’m putting up a donate button, but I’ve decided to cave because I really want the best for this book and therefore you and the artists.  Will you help me?

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