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ATX Television Festival: Abortion & Reproductive Rights Panel
Jun
10
to Jun 20
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ATX Television Festival: Abortion & Reproductive Rights Panel

Abortion storylines are becoming more commonplace, but many still aren’t reflective of the real-life circumstances of most abortion patients in the U.S. This panel will explore how TV can further improve depictions of abortion onscreen, and how by creating awareness and lowering the disparities between fictional representation and real-world statistics, the industry can use its power on and off screen to encourage proactiveness around reproductive health. Panel moderated by Merritt Tierce.

CARINA ADLY MACKENZIE

Showrunner/Executive Producer, "Roswell, New Mexico"

LINDA SCHUYLER

Showrunner/Executive Producer, "Degrassi: The Next Generation," "Degrassi: Next Class"

JACEY HELDRICH

Writer, "The Handmaid’s Tale"

JANINE SHERMAN BARROIS

Showrunner/Executive Producer, "Claws"

VOD Panel available to festival badgeholders, or on-demand after the festival.

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Abortion On Screen: How Telemedicine and Television Can Make a Difference
Jan
28
2:00 PM14:00
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Abortion On Screen: How Telemedicine and Television Can Make a Difference

The latest developments around medication abortion, how telemedicine plays a role, and the few but powerful depictions of it on recent TV: a conversation sponsored by Hollywood Health & Society and the Writers’ Guild of America. This is an online event at 4 PM PST/7 PM EST.

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Real Women Talk Dirty: Feminisms of Sex in Fiction
Mar
29
10:00 AM10:00
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Real Women Talk Dirty: Feminisms of Sex in Fiction

  • Oregon Convention Center, Level 2, Portland Ballroom 251 (map)
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AWP panel with Claire Vaye Watkins, Nalo Hopkinson, Mary Ann Mohanraj, and Debra Monroe, moderated by Kate Simonian.

One way to define dirt is as ‘matter out of place.’ Is ‘dirty’ literature labelled as such because of its content, or because of its irreverent treatment of such matter? What would advocates of heteroglossia or mixed discourses think of ‘dirty fiction’—that its determined blending makes it the sharpest edge of realism? Is the depiction of sex crucial to the goals of feminisms, and how? This all-woman panel discusses craft hazards and opportunities of rendering the sexually explicit.

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