Get Your Abortion Trading Cards
Alexandra Jamieson audaciously spends much of her waking life making art despite not having any art school debt. A third-generation self-taught artist from Portland, OR, she gets her hands, floors, and apron dirty at least five days a week in Brooklyn, NYC.
Her latest art includes the Abortion Trading Card series.
Learn more here:
https://www.alexandrajamieson.art/
About The Abortion Trading Cards by Alexandra Jamieson
The Abortion Trading Card project began on the back of my mother’s bicycle as she rode around Portland, Oregon encouraging people to vote in the 1978 Oregon Governor’s race. Raised by back-to-the-land hippies, civic engagement was served at the dinner table along with homemade potato bread. Mom was an artist and both parents were teachers, but I didn’t go to art school because I didn’t feel talented.
From 2003-15 I wrote four books on natural health, but the 2020 pandemic and violent political times couldn’t convey the emotions and urgency in my heart. Turning to art as a self-care practice, my watercolor of an upside down American flag was immediately purchased by a friend: the painting wasn’t “perfect” but it made her feel seen and connected, and I realized that made me an artist. This series combines a lifetime of activism with my love of history and gallows humor.
This 36-card deck imagines a dystopian future where abortion care is totally illegal and women educate each other about reproductive health surreptitiously using playing cards. The cards contain anatomy, abortion history from around the world, vocabulary, and abortifacient herbs.
Show Notes:
“Can’t separate my political awareness and my activist soul from whatever it is I’m doing”
“Got into collage as a way to include other things”
Artist Trading Cards
“I imagine people trading information on this hand printed deck of cards”
“What are the weird goth girls of the future gonna do to work around what’s coming”
“I want it to stir conversation”
“I want us to get comfortable and ready to take action”
National Abortion Fund cards- Heart to Heart Abortion Conversation cards
“All art is inspired by some other creation”
“Creating a thing and then giving it to the world is part of the process”
How do we make it beautiful that these two parts of you exist
“Art for me is the best therapy on earth”
Conceiver Beware- CPC zine project
Brigid Alliance- 15% of all trading card profits
“Rich white ladies like me will always be able to get an abortion”
Gallows Humor
Row House Publishing
Charley chatbot
Expose Fake Clinics
Irth app
Pre-orders for the Abortion Trading Cards: https://www.rowhousepublishing.com/store/p/abortion-trading-cards
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