Name: #CANTHYDETHEFUTURE
Start: 2016-10-01T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-10-01T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Democracy Center

#CANTHYDETHEFUTURE

The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fundprovides funding, financial strategizing, and logistical support to people who live in, or are having abortions in, Eastern Massachusetts and are unable to pay for their abortions.  Additionally, the EMA Fund reduces social and economic barriers to abortion services through movement building, advocacy, and education.The EMA Fund envisions a world where every person has the right to bodily self determination including the means to access an abortion or carry a pregnancy to term without social or economic barriers.  We envision a world where every person has the right to determine their own future.The Repeal Hyde Art Projectraises awareness and creates dialogue about theHyde Amendment, which blocks people from using Medicaid to pay for abortions. The Project accomplishes its mission throughcollaborative artsandshareable graphic content. It is a colorful, optimistic, and interactive response to Hyde that reflects the self-determination of the people who have overcome barriers and the hope for change. We also recognize that the Hyde Amendment has a disproportionate impact on women of color and exists within an multi-layered, oppressive environment. We strive to create intersectional dialogue that links abortion access to other related issues: a dialogue which reflects the complex realities of our lives. We are strong and we fly together. The more we share the birds and the message, the more we raise awareness, and the more we can push for change.

EMA Fund & Repeal Hyde Art Project

#CANTHYDETHEFUTURE is an invitation to imagine our future with reproductive justice. There are no abortion restrictions. There is no abortion stigma. We can plan and construct our families without judgement or a prescribed notion of what family should look like. Our communities are thriving without the threat of oppression or violence. Queer and trans folks and women of color are centered. Sacred lands are preserved. We have justice. We are at peace. 
Curated by Megan Smith of the Repeal Hyde Art Project, this series focuses on the power of art as a tool for social transformation and imagination. Megan says: "As we reflect on the <A HREF="http://www.repealhydeartproject.org/hyde-amendment" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hyde Amendment</A> as reality for the past 40 years, it's also time to think about what a world looks like without it. 40 years is enough. Artists have the tremendous power to explore and envision the potential for new realities. Collectively, in this space, we are saying that our future is one without the threat and weight of oppression, violence, and colonialism. It is instead a place of of connectivity, wholeness, justice, openness, and love." 
The Repeal Hyde Art Project and Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund present the #CANTHYDETHEFUTURE event on Saturday October 1, 2016 at the Democracy Center in Cambridge from 7-9PM. This event is a unique opportunity to view pieces by various artists as they have invisioned a future without the Hyde Amendment. Please join us for an evening of art, food, poetry, and music to imagine a future with reproductive justice.

The Democracy Center

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