Author: Angela Hume, Deep Care

Join author Angela Hume and special guests in dialogue about the feminist activists and health workers orbiting the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from the early 1970s until 2010, determined to ensure access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, at all costs.

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open (AK Press, 2023) follows these activists as they worked underground and above ground, in small cells and broad coalitions and across political movements with grit, conviction and allegiances of great trust to do what they believed needed to be done--despite the law, when required. Grounded in interviews of activists sharing details of their work for the first time, Angela Hume retells three decades of this critical, if under-recognized story of the radical edge of the abortion movement. These lessons are more pertinent than ever following the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision and the devastation to abortion access nationwide.

First 35 guests will receive a free copy of the book.

Angela Hume is a feminist historian, critic and poet. She is the author of two poetry books, Interventions for Women (2021) and Middle Time (2016), and co-editor of the book Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (2018). She teaches writing at University of California, Berkeley.