The Let It Out: Abortion Stigma-Busting Video Competition is open for your video entry until January 22, 2015--will your video be ready?

Katie Gillum and Emily Letts, last year's winners of the Abortion Stigma Busting Video Competition will present a how to webinar for anyone who is interested in making a video for Let It Out, this year's competition. Topics could include your own or a loved one's abortion experience, outrage over current politics, or calling out those who would stigmatize us. Please share this invitation with those who are passionate about abortion stigma busting, regardless of their prior experience with video.
 
 

Emily Letts

 is an actress, a graduate student in film, and a former advocate in abortion care, among other accomplishments. She is working with www.notalone.us to encourage people to video their abortion stories. Her own video of her abortion went viral after winning a Judge's Choice in last year's Video Abortion Stigma Busting Competition.
 
The complete guidelines to the Let It Out! Abortion Stigma-Busting Video Competition are here. The competition is co-sponsored by the Abortion Care Network, the  One in Three Campaign, and the Abortion Conversation Project.
 
The webinar "Making an Abortion Video" is free and open to those people who want to use video to bust abortion stigma. It is scheduled for Friday Oct 17th at 1 pm Eastern time and will last one hour. Click here to register.

Let it Out!

2nd Abortion Stigma Busting Video Competition

Register here $5

Creating stigma is a key strategy of anti-abortion extremists who want to shame everyone into silence about abortion. This year we have seen the consequences of this stigma-- clinic closures, women who can't find services, and right wing extremists in charge of women's health. It is urgent that we create cultural pushback against those who would try to stigmatize us. So, we encourage you to "Let It Out", be it about your own or a loved one's abortion experience, outrage over current politics, or calling out those who would stigmatize us. Video is a great outlet for your passion!

For the past 3 years, ACN conference attendees have been treated to a poetry reading featuring the top winners of the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest. These moving poems brought home the importance of our work to the patients and communities that we serve, as well as the pride that we take in abortion care. The power of this poetry was evident as an entire conference room fell silent so all of us could catch every artistic, heartfelt word.

 

Watch the Split This Rock website  for more details in early November.