Name: REACH & Renee Bracey Sherman: Liberating Abortion
Start: 2025-03-25T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-25T19:00:00-04:00
Location: gentle bull shop

REACH & Renee Bracey Sherman: Liberating Abortion

River Bend is delighted to partner with The REACH Fund of Connecticut, as they host Renee Bracey Sherman, co-author of Liberating Abortion.
About this Event

River Bend Bookshop is delighted to partner with The REACH Fund of Connecticut, as they host Renee Bracey Sherman, co-author of Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.
This event will be held at The Gentle Bull Shop on Pratt Street in Hartford on Tuesday, March 25th at 6pm. Admission is free, but registration is requested. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Any remaining signed stock will be available at River Bend Bookshops following the event.
The REACH Fund of Connecticut is a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance for abortion care in Connecticut. They are committed to reproductive equity, access, and choice, and providing education about abortion and reproductive healthcare in order to dispel disinformation and eliminate stigma.

ABOUT THE BOOK
A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we must liberate abortion for all.
People of color have been having abortions since the dawn of time, yet our access is continuously under attack. In Liberating Abortion, award-winning abortion activist Renee Bracey Sherman and journalist Regina Mahone illustrate the long racist history that brought us to this moment, uncover the hidden figures who set the foundation that activists and storytellers are building on today, and explain how abortion has been and remains essential to the health of our communities.
Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of sex education, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries, while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. You’ll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with more than fifty people of color who’ve had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and the two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe.
With poignant storytelling and precise analysis, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and writer. She is the founder and co–executive director of We Testify, executive producer of the award-winning documentary Ours to Tell, and cohost of the podcast The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion. In 2022, she made history as the first person to testify to the self-managed abortion protocol before Congress. She lives in Washington, DC.