March 16, 2005
Please Welcome Lorraine Berry, culturekitchen's newest cabinet member
by Liza Sabater
I am pleased to welcome Lorraine Berry, author of Stregoneria and DailyKos diarist.
As I have pointed out before, culturekitchen is my idea lab. A lot of what I post here will eventually end up either in a publication or project of it's own. So it's with great pleasure that I will have Lorraine writing, among other things, about an issue that is near and dear my heart : reproductive rights.
I believe culture is the product of how countries, nations and communities choose to treat women, sexuality and reproduction. It seems simplistic but think about it. How you are raised to treat your mother, your sisters and the women around will have an accumulated social effect if many others treat their women relations in a similar fashion. If, to paraphrase Adam Greenfield of v-2.org, our culture is the accumulated effect of the micro-fascism of every day life, "private" citizens have a lot of public explaining to do about their everyday choices --or belief in the lack thereof.
The eroding rights to choose over issues of vaccination, hospitalization, invasive medical procedures, education and independent learning, housing, employment terms, working hours, agri-business genetic engineering, social commonweal practices, personal finance laws, et cetera; they are all intrinsically related to how we, as a culture, treat women's bodies. If my body were not looked upon as property that produces "human capital', a thing to own and control, many of the domestic and international policies enacted by our government would not exist.
culturekitchen is a place to explore these issues. For that matter, I am happy to welcome Lorraine Berry in this thought experiment. I hope you do too.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Abortion, Activism, Guest Writer, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Politics, Writing
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