I Know What's Best for You

Shelly Oria

• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781952119323
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Edited by Shelly Oria —author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus —this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman's choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband's dying wish is for them to become parents. Forced sterilization camps line the borders of America in a dystopian future that may not be far off.In their own unique and unforgettable way, each storyteller examines our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny. I Know What's Best for You is a collaboration with the Brigid Alliance, a nationwide service that arranges and funds confidential and personal travel support to those seeking abortion care.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• A Note – I Know What’s Best for You All Over the World
• Fiction – Hymn
• Fiction – Let’s Just be Normal and Have a Baby
• Poetry – ¥360/$360
• Creative Nonfiction – Progression
• A Play – Anti-Fairy Tales from the Feminine Book of Fuck this
• Fiction – Protest
• Creative Nonfiction – There is Nothing Very Wrong with me
• Poetry – Labor and Other Poems
• Creative Nonfiction – Curse of the Spider Woman
• A Play – Monsters We Create
• Creative Nonfiction – Steel Womb
• Fiction – Maheov
• Poetry – What Can I Do For You?
• Creative Nonfiction and Photography – Journal of My Birth
• Epistolary – It Began in Another Land
• Creative Nonfiction – Not Anyone’s Hero
• Fiction – The Babies
• Fiction – The Fig Queen
• Poetry – Two Poems
• Comic – Women Like Me
• Creative Nonfiction – My Nieces
• A Poem-Play – They Just Might be Seen
• Creative Nonfiction – Compliance: A Guide
• Fiction – Divorcedly
• Poetry – Climate Primer for Babies
• Creative Nonfiction – Scarlet Letter
• Fiction – Christians in the Catacombs
• Fiction – We Bled all Winter
• About the Brigid Alliance
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments