• My Abortion Stories

    Abortion access should be like Viagra: free, on-demand, without apology or explanation. This is not an anti-choice conversation. Punto y Aparte. Jacquie Marroquin When I was 19, I had an abortion that I didn’t want.  I chose to terminate that pregnancy because my parents coerced me.  I was in love with a man who my […]

  • Descansos: Love Letters to the woman I was.

    “Descansos are symbols that mark a death. Right there, right on that spot, someone’s journey in life halted unexpectedly. To make descansos means taking a look at your life and marking where the small deaths, las muertes chiquitas, and the big deaths, las muertes grandotas, have taken place.” Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes I am a […]