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Contractions

2024

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Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.

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SaBrenna Boggan

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Chase Colling

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Shana J. Crispin

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Kimberly Hooper-Taylor

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