This Supreme Court decision is not a final defeat, nor is it an end to our power. When we resist, when we protest and push back, we can almost feel them through the veils of time and space.
They are also the distant strangers who are struggling with us toward a common goal, all across the country, in clinics and classrooms, public parks and nightclubs, coffee shops and places of worship. These allies are our elders, the activists who fought for our reproductive rights and bodily autonomy for the past 200 years. It reminds us that we have allies we may never meet, who are so far removed from us that they might as well live in another dimension. The alternate timeline metaphor also gives us a way to maintain hope in the face of disaster. It helps us to understand that the present is a complicated place, with many conflicting narratives that constantly crash into one another. There’s a reason why the multiverse movie Everything Everywhere All at Once has become an unexpected hit in 2022. Then I could take your hand and show you how the same person might lead very different lives with and without access to abortion. This would all be so much easier to explain if we could hop between timelines. There’s a Secret to Doing Yoga That Most Teachers Won’t Tell You Doom Narratives Are Hiding What We Should Be Most Afraid Of The CEO Responsible for ChatGPT Charmed Congress. Here’s What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Medical Burnout Crisis.
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