No ‘bad’ abortions

Freeman, C., & Nandagiri, R. (2023). No 'bad' abortions: Graphic narratives as abortion discourse. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, (10). https://maifeminism.com/no-bad-abortions-graphic-narratives-as-feminist-discourse/

Cordelia and I were both working on graphic novels about abortion in our different contexts, and Cordy had the fantastic idea to write about it for this MAI issue on Feminist Discourse in Comics and Graphic Novels.

We co-authored this over the course of two months and submitted it well before the deadline! This conversational format for an academic article was new to me, but I think it builds on feminist praxis and harks back to a genealogy of feminist conversations that underpin so much of this radical, destabilising, anarchic work of feminist comics and graphic novels.

Not long after publication, Cordy and I were both at a conference where a panellist referenced this piece. To say I was delighted would be an understatement!