The First SXSW Showcase For Texas Abortion Funds
On March 12, we curated our first-ever official showcase for SXSW, Day of A, featuring performances from Austin-based acts, Flora & Fawna, Chulita Vinyl Club and Nicole Cardoza (the Black Girl Magician).
In collaboration with grassroots nonprofit Plan C Pills, Day of A was designed to celebrate the SXSW premiere of Tracy Droz Tragos’ Plan C, a feature-length documentary chronicling the intersectional issues surrounding the abortion pill landscape.
Together, alongside partners like Fund Texas Choice, Jane’s Due Process, Wisp, It All Media, Texas Signal and SIECUS, we held space for abortion activists and grassroots organizations working toward reproductive rights and reproductive justice in Texas, despite the overturn of Roe v. Wade and Texas’ abortion ban.
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All photos by @johnleonjansen
LEARN MORE ABOUT DAY OF A’S PARTNERS & FRIENDS:
✰ PLAN C FILM
To keep up with plans for the film as well as screenings and ways to watch, please follow along at @plancfilm on Instagram and/or on Plan C Pills’ website here! If you would like to host a screening at your home, church, school, company or otherwise, please reach out to hello@jessjacobs.com for more information.
✰ PLAN C PILLS
As a nonprofit organization, Plan C is on a mission to share safe, responsible information on abortion pill access in the United States. No matter where you are, Plan C has informational guides, including stickers (in English and Spanish), for whoever might need them. You can access guides for your area here and complimentary stickers shipped to your door here.
✰ IF/WHEN/HOW
If/When/How's Repro Legal Defense Fund is a fund supporting people who are investigated, arrested, or prosecuted for #SelfManagedAbortion or for helping someone else end their own pregnancy. If/When/How's Repro Legal Helpline provides information and a legal helpline for people who have been investigated, arrested, or are facing arrest for ending their own pregnancy, too.
✰ FUND TEXAS CHOICE
Due to recent wins in legislation, Fund Texas Choice is thrilled to be doing abortion travel for Texans again! Our hotline is OPEN, and we’re here to help Texans travel legally and out of state. It’s also Fund-a-thon season so we’re bringing back Furry-Friend-a-thon! Follow Fund Texas Choice on social media to learn how you and your furry friends can raise your paws in support of abortion access.
✰ WISP
Wisp (hellowisp.com) is the largest and most accessible provider of sexual and reproductive telehealth services in the country, including abortion. With Wisp, Americans can get same-day prescriptions in 3 hours or less for common vaginal infections like, BV, UTIs and yeast infections, plus birth control, emergency contraception and medication abortion services.
✰ IT ALL MEDIA
Join Wisp, IT ALL Media and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change for virtual and IRL events convening experts, thought leaders, artists, and activists for conversations spanning everything from the patriarchy and perimenopause to better orgasms and bodily autonomy. This is the 'ah-ha, jaw-dropping, you've-got-to-be-kidding-me, oh-damn-you-too?" conversations we not only want, but deserve. You can enroll in "class" here.
Day of A is part of Future Front’s Texan Feminist Initiative.
At Future Front, our work is guided by a commitment to improving representation and resilience in our creative and small business communities. This has a distinct relationship to our understanding of social justice in Texas—which includes reproductive justice.
We envision a Texas that acknowledges and fights against the intersectional issues that affect our communities’ health, like access to reproductive cares, systemic racism, transphobia, abuse and violence, sexual miseducation and more. We envision a Texas without sexual stigma—a Texas that does not work to prevent all genders and sexes from receiving appropriate health services.
We envision a Texas where spaces that prioritize individual agency and the communication of truthful, responsible information thrive. We envision a Texas where abortion is decriminalized. We envision a Texas where we can speak for ourselves.