Mira Ptacin | author
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Get Out of My Crotch!
Twenty-One Writers Respond to America’s
War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health
Tired of hearing about legislation based on menstrual cycles, publisher Kim Wyatt sounded a call for essays about women’s rights and reproductive health in 2012. A shocking snapshot of regressive policies and the erosion of basic human rights emerged. Get Out of My Crotch! is an attempt to remind, to remember, and to continue the fight for equal rights.
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
Roxane Gay • Betty MacDonald • Katha Pollitt • Dolores P. • Sari Botton • Addy Robinson McCulloch • Tara Murtha • Sarah Mirk • Kari O’Driscoll • Martha Bayne • Janet Frishberg • Mira Ptacin • J.Victoria Sanders • s.e. smith • Camille Hayes • Rebecca K. O’Connor • Lidia Yuknavitch • Elissa Bassist • Kevin Sampsell • Kate Sheppard • Rebecca Cohen •
From the editors:
“We are witnessing the patriarchy’s last gasp, and it’s not going down without a fight. Using legislation, language, and women’s own silence, it seeks to return us to a time when choice and self-determination were not options.
In this collection, twenty-one fearless writers examine reproductive rights, access to health care, violence against women, and the rise of rape apologists in the twenty-first-century United States. Illuminating intersections of gender, class, and race, these stories speak to the challenges women routinely face, the attempts to undermine their rights, and the deliberate, systemic erosion of their agency and existence as equals. It’s time to revisit what’s at stake, what could still be lost, and why we must continually fight for equality and freedom for all.”
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*A percentage of the proceeds from this book will go to Planned Parenthood.*
*tinder* gallery opening
My Salt students are graduating! And you’re invited to come see/hear/watch/read their incredible work:
tinder
Maine Stories by Salt Fall 2012 Graduates in Writing + Radio + Photography + Multimedia
[ DECEMBER 13, 2012 - FEBRUARY 8, 2013 ]
After fifteen weeks of hard work, tinder celebrates the work of our fall 2012 class with an exhibition of powerful and intimate Maine stories. Join us on December 13th for a grand opening reception, open house and virtual story telling extravaganza. The building will be bursting at the seams with readings of the written word, radio listening, and photography + multimedia viewings by the following students. You won’t want to miss it!
But if you do… the exhibit will be up through February 8, 2013 for 1st Fridays and during regular gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-4:30 at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, 561 Congress Street, Portland, Maine
OUR TALENTED NEW MEDIA MAKERS: Penn Chan * Chloé Crettien * Kerry Ensinger * Chris J Gauthier * Shannon Geis * Brian Gersten * Barton Girdwood * Gabe Grabin * Julia Lowrie Henderson * Lauren Lamont * Manda Lillie * Mika McGinnis * Jessica Miller * Kristin Moe * Kelsey Padgett * Elise Pepple * Kimmee Poole * Thalassa Raasch * Katie Ricciardi * Sofia Saldanha * Kelly Shetron * Heidi Sistare * Laine Zimmerman*
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies is a non-profit school in Portland, Maine, offering semester intensive programs in documentary writing, radio, and photography, and all with an additional focus on powerful and responsible storytelling, collaboration and multimedia work in a variety of mediums.*
Hope to see you there!
Quo Vadimus?
Quo Vadimus: “Where are we going?”
Last week, one misty morning in Maine, my husband, the dogs and I hopped into our car and drove up the coast, all the way to Brooklin, in search of the saltwater farm and former home of the great American writer, E.B. White. It was quite an adventure, and it wasn’t easy. The White house is unmarked, had not been turned into a museum, and is now occupied by new, unrelated owners. White had always been a private and aloof man. For instance, in the New Yorker, he published a series of essays under the dateline “Allen Cove,” a designation that appears only on nautical maps. That way, said White, no one will be able to find [me] except by sailboat and using a chart.
But still, we found it. Here’s a tiny taste of our incredible trip:
“It’s late September and my husband and I are walking down a plain gravel path towards the cedar shake writing shed of someone who hasn’t invited us: Elwyn Brooks White, better known to some as the late, great essayist E.B. White, and to those who still don’t know, the man who wrote the classic children’s books ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and ‘Stuart Little.’ With each step away from the old brown barn and closer to the shed, we see living relics from White’s world: a lush emerald garden. An old chicken chopping block. A tall apple tree doubling as a raccoon lookout tower. The sterling pond, large brown geese skirting its brim. And then, as if the shed was just a shed, the writer’s studio appears.”
Want to find out what happens next? Rather than physically go to E.B. White’s former home (which is now a private residence now, which we should respect), why not tune into WRITERS’ HOUSES and pay your respects to the wonderful person and author, E.B. White. Founded in July 2010 by A. N. Devers, Writers’ Houses is a phenomenal online publication dedicated to the exploring writers’ spaces and art of literary pilgrimage.
Until then,
Mira