Author Angela Hume discusses her recent book Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open in conversation with Shout Your Abortion co-founder Amelia Bonow.

Angela's Deep Care follows generations of activists and health workers who orbited the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from the early 1970s until 2010, as they worked underground and above ground, in small cells and broad coalitions and across political movements with grit, conviction, and allegiances of great trust to do what they believed needed to be done—despite the law, when required. Grounded in interviews with activists sharing details of their work for the first time, Angela Hume reveals this critical, under-recognized story of the radical edge of the abortion movement. These lessons are more pertinent than ever following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision and the devastation to abortion access nationwide.

Angela Hume is a feminist historian, critic, and poet. She is the author of two poetry books, Interventions for Women (2021) and Middle Time (2016), and co-editor of the book Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (2018). She teaches writing at University of California, Berkeley.

Amelia Bonow is the Cofounder and Executive Director of Shout Your Abortion (SYA), a nationwide organization working to normalize abortion and elevate paths to access regardless of legality. She is the coeditor of SYA's eponymously titled book (2017), which sits in the waiting rooms of hundreds of abortion clinics. Amelia proudly serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors of Abortion Care Network, a national organization which represents and serves independent abortion providers.