This Bay Area Exhibit Around Feminism Couldn’t Have Come at a More Needed Time

OMCA’s ‘Hella Feminist’ exhibit is a love letter to an inclusive future — one that understands reproductive rights are human rights

Katherine Sherwood, Olympia, 2014.
(Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles/OMCA)

I often catch myself walking through the world surprised at just how calm I am in the presence of the mounding chaos. Trumpism, despite our wishful pontifications, is very much still alive. Children continue to die from mass shootings. We now have a second health emergency to contend with: monkeypox. The climate is, quite frankly, evolving into a form not congruent with human life.

Of course, Roe v. Wade has now been overturned — setting the United States nearly 50 years back and ushering in a new, hauntingly dark era for reproductive rights in this country.

We Asked Bay Area Locals What They Fear About Roe v. Wade Being (Potentially) Overturned

It all feels too much. It’s because it is all too much. The human soul can only support so much pressure before its torso meets the kitchen floor.