Hal’s Yard Hustle directed by Annie Spiegelman

An electronic mail with a video titled “Hal’s Yard Hustle” and a brief introduction got here into our inbox just lately. The video is supposed as comedy however with the intense intent of inspiring youthful adults to vote. It made us (the behind-the-scenes FAR co-weavers) chuckle a few instances. We’re delighted that persons are creatively discovering methods to encourage voting and, with that, defend our rights.

Because the imitable Carol P. Christ began writing and educating us so a few years in the past, the underlying function of patriarchy is to manage girls’s our bodies and fertility.

We’re seeing this taken to the extremes in our personal nation right here within the U.S. Girls who can’t entry probably the most primary requirements of care are left traumatized and a few are dying. Police forces have been pressed into the responsibility of policing girls’s our bodies. Legislatures are writing legal guidelines for max cruelty. Exceptions (for rape, incest, blah, blah, blah) are nothing greater than gaslighting initiatives to make the regulation makers appear extra compassionate as a result of in follow they’re meaningless. Simply how near demise does a girls must be earlier than she might be handled? Does the rapist need to be convicted earlier than a pregnant rape-survivor can entry care? As a result of, actually, in line with patriarchy, you may’t belief girls. Nor medical doctors.

Many in our neighborhood are rattled by this election. And with good purpose – our most elementary human rights are in danger and it seems that too many Individuals are high-quality with that.

Within the midst of all this, Annie Spiegelman and her Bay Space movie crew are doing one thing about it by responding with creativity and a few a lot wanted humor. They created this very humorous YouTube video to encourage extra motion. We’re delighted to assist unfold this phrase. Please benefit from the video and share as far and vast as you’re able.

Under are Annie’s phrases from her electronic mail to FAR, adopted by the video:

Motivated by our collective Roe-Rage, an all-female, Bay Space movie crew joined forces and determined our greatest “trauma remedy” could be to jot down and movie one thing humorous. So, we made a comedy — about male contraception! 

Our 3-minute video is aimed toward motivating younger male voters to register and vote pro-choice. 

The ultimate graphics take viewers to www.VOTE.org and www.headcount.org (with QR codes) the place they’ll examine their registration or register to vote. 

BRING US THE YOUNG DUDES!  We’re asking for assist in sharing our quick video to younger voters on social media.  

Hal’s Yard Hustle on YouTube

We discovered this value sharing and hope it might serve to encourage every of us to do our half and assist transfer this election within the course of ladies’s reproductive rights and freedom.