EDNA BONHOMME

The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts.

After Sex provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women.

The fall has brought a whirlwind of interviews with neuroscientists, activists, and writers. I published two book reviews in the Washington Post and The Nation.

The funding will allow me to continue researching and writing about abortion access, as I have done in my upcoming co-edited anthology, After Sex (Silver Press, 2023). As many people know, reproductive freedom continues to be dear to my heart, and I want to narrate stories that move us enough to grant justice to all. More than anything, I am grateful for my friends, comrades, and interlocutors who put confidence in my prose.

Some highlights from my recent essays in Esquire, The Nation, and Frieze.

An announcement about my upcoming books.

My collaborator and I went through a pandemic, coordinated from different time zones, and underwent major life changes. We were mourning our past lives while also holding dear to our labor and our commitment to producing scholarship about medicine, disease, and psychiatry.

Die Kuratorin und Afrofuturistin Ingrid LaFleur entwirft neue Narrative für Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Ein Gespräch über intersektionale Kunst, ihr politisches Engagement und den Begriff der Utopie im Afrofuturismus.

I was in conversation with novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga for the lit.Cologne festival in March to discuss her latest book, Black and Female (Faber, 2022).

This is my latest radio show with journalist Abby Young-Powell.

Love’s work…

I assumed I would be part of the first generation to have full agency over my reproduction – but I was wrong.