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I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom by Yael R. Shinar, Alison Espach, Mary Jo Bang, Deborah Landau, Kate Novotny, Sarah Gerard, Riva Lehrer, Ama Codjoe, Onnesha Roychoudhuri, Carrie Bornstein, Tiphanie Yanique, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Hannah Lillith Assadi, R.O. Kwon, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Deb Olin Unferth, Sally Wen Mao, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Kate Tarker, Kristen Arnett, Erin Williams, Cade Leebron, Shelly Oria, Tommy Orange, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Desiree Cooper, Khadijah Queen, Kim Gek Lin Short, Georgina Escobar

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mollymocket's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

incredible. everyone should read this

sjforsko's review

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challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.0

Lots of variety. Definitely a lot of heavy stories, which is to be expected, but a few lighter and funnier stories mixed in there too.

beccaww16's review

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

An impactful collection of stories that explores how reproductive rights and justice impacts everyone in a variety of different ways

This is one of those collections of short stories/other art forms all rolled into one book. Picked this up right at the turn of Roe v Wade so it felt super relevant. Sat reading for a longggg time one night. I ended up dnfing it because I didn’t like the last few forms of art (intense lyrical poetry) and wanted to reach for something else instead. Still REALLY great!!

meghansalm1's review

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4.0

This is a unique anthology of short stories, poems, comics, nonfiction, photography, and more discussing women’s health issues and reproductive freedom. Definitely a relevant, if not urgent read. It was dense and some stories definitely resonated more than others, but that’s to be expected! The upside to having such a wide array of stories approaching the same topic is that there’s something here for everyone. Some of my favorites were Women Like Me, The Fig Queen, and Scarlett Letter. Also, it’s in collaboration with the Brigid Alliance, a nationwide service that arranges and funds confidential and personal travel support to those seeking abortion care, so a portion of proceeds goes to the Brigid Alliance :-)

meghansalm's review

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4.0

jlautry's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

This was a really cool book. I‘ve never read a book in this format and I‘m a fan. It was a collection of different types of writing (poetry, short stories, non-fiction, illustrations, etc.) by different authors. I found it very interesting. It gave many viewpoints on a range of topics regarding women‘s health. My only critiques are that several of the pieces (especially the poetry pieces) were totally lost on me. Maybe I‘m not a deep enough thinker :) And the other is that I wish they‘d collected stories from more, broader perspectives. This really had an opportunity to present a vast array of stories and I feel like they only really captured half the story. All in all, this one is definitely worth the read.