By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 12 years ago

NineteenPercent: The erosion of Roe and why you should give a shit

Our awesome vlogging maven NineteenPercent has a few words for you about why everyone should care about efforts to overturn Roe v Wade and limit access to abortion.

Thanks to Amber, for reminding us that a Supreme Court ruling doesn’t mean the fight for reproductive freedom is over. “It’s not over,” as she so rightly says, “until the fat lady is guaranteed the right to do whatever she wants with her own body.”

Transcript here.

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Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia.

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