Arnett reads from her story, “The Babies,” and Oria reads from hers, “We Bled All Winter.”
The writers speak about misinformation and crisis pregnancy centers, as well as what a post-Roe future might hold. Wade, the conversation teases out how, through art, charged political issues like abortion take on a specificity that they don’t in basic reporting or debate. In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the reproductive rights crisis through the lens of art, specifically through the stories, plays, essays and poems that comprise McSweeney’s new anthology, I Know What’s Best for You, edited by Oria. Editor and writer Shelly Oria and novelist Kristen Arnett join co-hosts V.V.
