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HUMOR & TRAUMA HEALING THEMES

TOPICS


 * 1) Abortion
 * 2) War
 * 3) Abuse
 * 4) Mental Health Breakdowns
 * 5) Bankruptcy
 * 6) Divorce & Breakups
 * 7) Incarceration
 * 8) Illness
 * 9) Death
 * 10) Betrayal, Personal and Professional
 * 11) Loss
 * 12) Rape & Sexual Abuse & Harassment
 * 13) Accidents
 * 14) Regret
 * 15) Revenge
 * 16) Violence
 * 17) Immigration & Refugees
 * 18) Natural Disasters

= HUMOR & ABORTION = Humor is used, personally and societally, to address abortion, both as a healing tool and as an advocacy tool for different views on abortion.

Pro Abortion Humor
Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-so-funny-about-abor_b_160345

Bitch Media: https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/safe-legal-and-hilarious-four-actually-funny-jokes-and-one-short-film-about-abortion

Health Works Collective: https://www.healthworkscollective.com/fighting-anti-abortion-legislation-humor/

Humor Times:

https://www.humortimes.com/103108/anti-abortion-activists-arm-fetuses/

https://www.humortimes.com/77482/trump-ends-all-abortion-restrictions-cites-national-emergency/

https://www.humortimes.com/76477/alabama-new-abortion-law/

Anti-Abortion Humor
James Watkins: https://www.jameswatkins.com/cartoons-4/pro-life-cartoons/

Humorous Movies with Abortion Themes
Obvious Child

Aljazeera America: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/abotion-comedy-obviouschild.html

Unpregnant

The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/unpregnant-and-the-cathartic-beauty-of-the-hollywood-abortion-comedy

Staged Plays on Humor and Abortion
Funny Like An Abortion by Rachel Bublitz

- Funny Like An Abortion by Rachel Bublitz

New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/450187/funny-abortion/recommendations

Playground SF: https://playground-sf.org/funnylikeanabortion/

Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/09/s-f-abortion-play-suddenly-just-got-a-lot-more-unsettling/

Oh God, A Show About Abortion by Alison Leiby

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/arts/abortion-theater-films.html

Playbill: https://www.playbill.com/article/oh-god-a-show-about-abortion-completes-run-at-cherry-lane-theatre-august-26

Broadway World: https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Alison-Leibys-OH-GOD-A-SHOW-ABOUT-ABORTION-to-Play-the-Cherry-Lane-Theatre-20220316

Theatre In New York: https://www.theatreinnewyork.com/oh-god-a-show-about-abortion/1427/

The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/can-abortion-be-funny

Songs
Ben Folds: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-abortion-rape-and-humo_b_166782

Additional Sources
The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/arts/television/abortion-comedy.html

New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/theater/abortion-shows-alison-leiby-phelim-mcaleer.html

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