March 2025 Newsletter: Writing Ourselves Back In

During Women's History Month, we look to Our Bodies Ourselves's own history for tools, knowledge, and inspiration. In the opening letter, program director Laura Prieto writes about ongoing attempts to erase women from public records, from federal health-related databases to National Parks Service signage. Yet thanks to Our Bodies Ourselves's long history, "we have been here before and we remember what to do."

The issue includes an interview with co-founder Jane Pincus on bringing her path-breaking film, "Abortion and Women's Rights 1970" to new audiences, and historical insights from the website on Black midwives, evangelical campaigns against racial desegregation and abortion, and the fraught history of hysterectomy. The new podcast "Cramped" and a Boston Public Library exhibit on banned books both featured OBOS this month. We share a list of upcoming events and highlight the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as a way to get involved in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, March 31.