I’m Pro Becky (who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs), 2022

18 x 24” digital print on paper

I’m Pro Becky (who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs) refers to a Facebook meme in which twelve traumatic pregnancy stories are recounted to combat the anti-abortion narratives. In the US, much of reproductive politics are based on imagined anatomy and fabricated stories. In the case of the I’m Pro Becky meme, people are sharing and distributing traumatic stories to make a case for reproductive rights. The threat to reproductive right in the US has provoked people’s imagination of the worst possible scenarios of pregnancy in order to justify reproductive freedom. This piece reflects on the sharing of trauma as a form of provoked violence and considers the ways in which the imagination of the reproductive process is activated.