4000 Years for Choice

Champaign-Urbana Midwest Zine Fest!

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:09:14 +0000

Heather Ault will be presenting the 4000 Years for Choice project at the 125th May Day Champaign-Urbana Midwest Zine Fest at 6pm on Saturday, April 30th, 2011.

http://midwestzinefest.ucimc.org/

Planned Parenthood Gala Event

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:20:57 +0000

4000 Years for Choice was invited to donate posters to Planned Parenthood of Illinois’s Generations Gala event on Thursday, May 5, 2011. These posters will be included in the auction. As well, additional posters will be gifted to several supporters as a thank you for their committment to protecting women’s reproductive healthcare in Illinois.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/illinois/generations-celebration-healthy-families-36501.htm

Faith Aloud’s Fundraising Event

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:25:37 +0000

To support their wonderful and important spiritual work, a series of posters have been donated to Faith Aloud’s fundraising event on June 11, 2011!

http://www.faithaloud.com/

3/22/11: Central Michigan Life

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:00:33 +0000

“Abortion and reproductive freedom are often touchy subjects, but artist Heather Ault does not shy away from it. Ault spoke in the Bovee University Center Auditorium Tuesday night as part of the art department’s Barstow Lecture Series.” View article

Art Now! Lecture at Cental Michigan University

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:41:54 +0000

Through the 2011 Stephen L. Barstow Art and Design Lectures Series, Heather Ault presented her work to an audience of students, faculty, and community members at Central Michigan University. This year’s theme was contemporary protest art. Her lecture took place in the Bovee Auditorium on March 22, 2011.

http://www.cmich.edu/x32617.xml

2/22/2011: The Iowa Independent

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:11:27 +0000

“Artist and activist Heather Ault, an Illinois resident, developed a series of visual narratives about the international history of abortion and contraception, known as “4000 Years for Choice.” View article

Abortion Care Network National Conference

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:14:54 +0000

As one of the keynote speakers, Heather Ault presented her research and artwork at the Abortion Care Network’s national conference in Florida in February 2011. Her analysis covered the history, images, language, and spaces of the pro-choice movement. Her presentation was described as “the sleeper hit of the conference, and the one everyone was still talking about weeks later” by one attendee.

http://www.abortioncarenetwork.org/

Treasure Dittany!

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:15:59 +0000

Treasure Dittany!

Pliney the Elder, a Roman philosopher from the 1st century, wrote about the abortifacient effects of dittany, an herb from the mint family: it was “so powerful that it shall not be in a room with a pregnant woman.” One recipe from a Hippocratic document listed a drink of dittany, leak juice, and a large shell of oil of bitter almonds.

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Make Steaming Onions!

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:15:45 +0000

Make Steaming Onions!

An 8th century Sanskrit text instructs women wishing to induce an abortion to sit over a pot of steam or stewed onions, just as Jewish women of the Manhattan Lower East Side continued to do during the early 1900s.

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Own Menopause!

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:15:33 +0000

Own Menopause!

For many couples without access to contraception, menopause was something to cheer for. In 1871, a man editorialized his thoughts about his wife’s transition into menopause through a cartoon reading, “There will be no more! Hoorah!”

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