living and dying under dobbs

“As a quilter, I am fascinated by the way women have turned their unregarded (and under the radar) craft into a forum for political and personal expressions.

Living and Dying Under Dobbs is in this tradition. Women always find a way to speak to each other and down the generations.”

—Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, featured in the prizewinning HBO documentary The Janes, and a former member of “The Jane Collective,” the underground network that provided abortions in Chicago before Roe v. Wade legalized them in 1973

"The pain in Living and Dying Under Dobbs is almost unbearable, so needlessly tragic that you might find it hard to get through--except for the anger. The anger that these beautifully stitched creations rouse in you when you see, hear, and feel the stories of these women whose lives are caught in the vortex of cruel and misguided policies following the Dobbs decision. That anger makes me read on. It makes me rise up. It gives me the energy, again, to fight back."

—Lucy Ferriss, author of the 1997 novel The Misconceiver, set fifteen years after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and rereleased in 2022