"Liberating Abortion" with Renee Bracey Sherman

Join Tampa Bay Abortion Fund for an evening exploring Liberating Abortion, with co-author Renee Bracey Sherman!
In this essential reading, award-winning abortion activist Renee Bracey Sherman and journalist Regina Mahone illustrate the long racist history that brought us to this moment, uncover the hidden figures who set the foundation that activists and storytellers are building on today, and explain how abortion has been and remains essential to the health of our communities. Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of sex education, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. You’ll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with more than fifty people of color who’ve had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe. With poignant storytelling and precise analysis, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever.
We hope you'll join us for this event on May 11th from 7-8:30pm at Black English Bookstore (📍401 E Oak Ave, Tampa, FL 33602).
Event tickets include an option for general admission (which is a $10 donation to Tampa Bay Abortion Fund). (If cost is a barrier for you, please reach out to [email protected] for discount code; no one will be turned away for lack of funds.) If tickets are sold out on this page, please visit for more information or ticket options.
About Renee:
Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and writer. For a decade she led We Testify, an organization she founded dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions and share their stories at the intersection of race, class, and gender identity. She is also an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary elevating the voices of people who've had abortions. Her writing can be found in a variety of newspapers and several books including Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements, Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade, and Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. In 2024, she and her co-author Regina Mahone released their debut book, LIBERATING ABORTION: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve and they are also the co-hosts of The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, a podcast from The Meteor. She lives in Washington, DC where she is a PhD student at American University’s School of Communication.

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