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Want to start something? This movement is yours. Host an event, make art, display SYA posters or videos in your business. We’ve created some tools below to help you get started.
Want to start something? This movement is yours. Host an event, make art, display SYA posters or videos in your business. We’ve created some tools below to help you get started.
You can help elevate the visibility of those who have had abortions even if you haven’t had one of your own. We’ve created a set of 11.5″ x 17″ posters so that you can help SYA take it to the streets and show the world that people who have abortions are everywhere! Hang one in the window of your home or business or make some wheatpaste and get guerilla—the possibilities are endless! And if you can, please take some pics and submit them to the site.
Wearing a button that has the word “ABORTION” on it is a great way to start conversations about abortion in your everyday life—and that’s what SYA is all about! Button making parties are a great way to get people together and make neat stuff. This download has some tips, templates, a logo pack and print ready sheets. Post some pictures of your buttons on this site –it would make us so happy to see what you come up with!
Although access to abortion care is basically non-existent for millions of Americans, the country is home to over 4,000 fake clinics. These fake clinics lie and manipulate the most vulnerable pregnant people they can find in the hopes of dissuading them from choosing abortion. Gross, right? That’s why our friends at Lady Parts Justice League spearheaded a campaign to #ExposeFakeClinics, and there are a ton of ways for you to participate.
Get involved, find events and tools – including a great set of posters we made with our friends at Civilization – at exposefakeclinics.com
One easy way to start conversations about abortion is to pick up some SYA swag: we’ve got a range of garments, zines and media. And trust us: wearing something that says the word “ABORTION” changes the world around you. Every. Single. Time. All sales support actions by SYA!
Got a blank wall? We have gorgeous portraits of people wearing SYA’s “Everyone Knows I Had An Abortion” shirts in places all over the USA. You can project these pretty much anywhere – try playing this reel inside your art gallery or bar instead of sports or old movies, or get some extension cords and play the reel on an exterior wall! You can loop the reel on any TV with an HDMI port or run them through a projector.
Step 1: Download video file below or Stream online
Step 2: Set media player to loop (Quicktime: View > Loop; Stream automatically loops)
Step 3: Project on a blank wall or stream from a monitor in a venue, bar, gallery, etc.
Step 4: Take pics and post on social with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion
January 2018: Time to get #TogetherForAbortion.
To celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Roe v Wade this January, #SYA is planning a month-long campaign of events geared towards sparking conversations about abortion. People all over the country are getting #TogetherForAbortion with music, zine-making, art, community conversations, protests, art pop-up shows, and more. Here’s how to get involved:
Attend a #TFA event in your area.
Host a pop-up #SYA poster show in your space! Do you have a wall and/or a monitor in your lobby, gallery, house, business or workplace? Have yourself a ready-made DIY art show! Reach out to us asap with poster requests (we still have a few sets left!) or call up your screen-printer friend and print your own using these images.
Plan a reading of Paula Kamen’s JANE, a play centered around Chicago’s revolutionary abortion service and its roots, 1965-1973.
Wear some #SYA gear. Wearing abortion-themed clothing gets the conversation started immediately. And #SYA gear is super cute. (Please order asap to receive in time for January events).
Do whatever you want! Talk about abortion in a way that feels comfortable and unique to you. Have tea with a friend, post a photo on Instagram, make cards for abortion providers in your area, watch an abortion-themed movie, host a dinner and talk about your abortion, have a crafting night, write a story, talk to your best friend…these ripples can lead to waves of change in your community. Abortion is personal. You do you!
Author Paula Kamen’s part-documentary play, Jane: Abortion and the Underground, about the legendary feminist underground Chicago abortion service, is available free of charge for activist events, especially for those marking the Roe anniversary in January. It offers 9-11 diverse and substantial roles for young women (and one or two men). Based on original interviews with women who ran and used this service, it tells the story of Jane, which was known as “the best kept secret” in Chicago from 1969-1973. It offers inspiration about feminist resistance and the power of women organizing, but also warns about the harsh realities of illegal abortion, even in the most ideal DIY circumstances.
The most performed version is 90 minutes long, but she also offers two shorter adaptations done by activists: an hour monologues-only version and a half hour scene-excerpt version (requiring only four actors).
More info on the play is available here.
More info on this offer to abortion activists is available here.
Email paulakamen at gmail dot com for details or for a script.
Print your own beautiful #TogetherForAbortion posters! Know how to screen-print or know someone who does? Download the attached 3-color files, print out your own posters, and host your own DIY art show. Hang one in the window of your home or business or make some wheatpaste and get guerilla—the possibilities are endless! And if you can, please take some pics and submit them to the site.
About this poster series:
For #TogetherForAbortion 2018 we looked through the hundreds of abortion designs that have been sent to us over the last few years and chose 9 to repurpose into a limited edition screen printed poster set. Only 75 copies of each 11×14 poster were printed.
This poster set is inspired by art contributed to the SYA movement by the following artists: Erin Frost, Kirk Damer, Emily Nokes, Andrew Lamb Schultz, Shannon Perry, Maggie Prendergast, Mary Anne Carter, Civilization. Special thanks to designer Mary Anne Carter for providing cohesion to our idea and pulling these posters to life with us! <3
Print your own beautiful #TogetherForAbortion posters! You don’t need to know how to screen-print for this version – any regular printer will do. After you print out these posters, the next steps are up to you. Wheatpaste your neighborhood, use them for a march, hang them on your wall… And if you can, please take some pics and submit them to the site.
About this poster series: For #TogetherForAbortion 2018 we looked through the hundreds of abortion designs that have been sent to us over the last few years and chose 9 to repurpose into a limited edition screen printed poster set. Only 75 copies of each 11×14 poster were printed.
This poster set is inspired by art contributed to the SYA movement by the following artists: Erin Frost, Kirk Damer, Emily Nokes, Andrew Lamb Schultz, Shannon Perry, Maggie Prendergast, Mary Anne Carter, Civilization. Special thanks to designer Mary Anne Carter for providing cohesion to our idea and pulling these posters to life with us! <3
Created for SYA by artist John Criscitello, this art gets right to the point. It is high-res and available to download! You can use it to make posters (SYA wheat-pasted a giant poster-sized version on the streets of Seattle and you can too!), stickers, share online, cover telephone poles, use as a screensaver, do covert screensaver replacements, get a tattoo, put up in your dorm room or your office…the options are endless and up to you! Please feel free to share in whatever way makes sense for you. Non-commercial use only, please!
When appropriate, please credit artist John Cristcitello. Thank you!
