Seeking queer stories about abortion and reproductive healthcare experiences! Anyone can submit an anonymous story to be performed at the 2024 Abortion Monologues. We are striving to center LGBTQ+ voices to spread awareness of disparity of care and encourage action during this year’s elections.

Stories can be of any length and can be submitted via Planned Parenthood’s collection form.

Over a decade ago, we at the Kalamazoo College Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement partnered with Planned Parenthood of Michigan to interview people who had used PP’s services for various reasons (mostly abortions but also vasectomies, std treatment, etc.). Similar to the more familiar Vagina Monologues, students in a Center for Civic Engagement course transcribed these interviews to create an annual dramatic reading of these monologues. But we only had voices representing cis gender men and women. This year, we hope to center LGBTQ and particularly trans stories in response to the political landscape around reproductive and gender affirming healthcare.