INFORMATION IS CARE. Join Autumn Breon, Plan C and Future Front for The Care House, a literal and figurative community salon.
For one day only, The Future Front House will transform into the official tour stop for Care Machine, Autumn Breon’s latest installation, a traveling beauty and sexual health vending machine.
Come through for an evening exploring the art (and adornment) of reproductive justice, featuring a talk with Autumn Breon herself, community-care panels, an art show, mini-facial stations, tooth gems and more!
Autumn Breon (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory.
Autumn Breon imagines her work as immersive invitations for the public to join in the reimagining and creation of systems that make current oppressive systems obsolete. Breon has created commissions for Art Production Fund, Frieze Art Fair, and the ACLU of Southern California. Breon’s performance history includes Hauser & Wirth, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Water Mill Center.
She is an alumna of Stanford University where she studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and researched aeronautical astrobiology applications. Breon is a recipient of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition & the Advancement of the Creative Economy and the Race Forward Fellowship for Housing, Land, and Justice.
For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action. Founded in 2016 by a coalition of artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative engagement. For Freedoms works closely with a variety of artists, organizations, institutions and brands to expand what participation in a democracy looks like and reshape conversations about politics.
Learn more at www.forfreedoms.org
Project for Empty Space (PES) is a multifaceted arts organization in downtown Newark, NJ and downtown Manhattan, NY. PES is a woman-run, femme-powered, People of the Global Majority/BIPOC, Queer, and unapologetically radical ecosystem for creatives. Today, PES provides safe, equitable spaces for artistic innovation and complex public engagement by supporting artists whose work is oriented toward social discourse. Our programs lean towards discourses that have been historically and systemically erased such as marginality, in-equity, and visibility. Today, in our efforts to support socially-oriented artists, we maintain a commitment to holding space for radical future-making. www.projectforemptyspace.org
PES’ 2024 program Body Freedom For Every(Body) is a mobile art museum that will travel nationwide, partnering with local organizations to create awareness, cultivate community, and engender support for body autonomy through art. The overarching message of this program is broadening awareness of the right to Safe, Legal, and Accessible healthcare that allows us to live in our power and choice. www.bodyfreedomforeverybody.org
FEMINIST is the largest social-first digital platform and community serving the multifaceted lives of women, girls, and gender expansive people with a global audience of over 6M+. As a women-led non-profit media company, FEMINIST exists to advance gender equity through the amplification of a diverse network of intersectional feminist changemakers, artists, organizations, and creators.
Homegrown in Austin, Future Front is an award-winning, culture space and exhibition series—with women and LGBTQ+ creatives at the front.
As an arts and culture nonprofit, we produce two flagship exhibitions The Front Market and The Front Festival. We also host year-round shows and workshops at our creative community space in East Austin, welcoming 20,000+ visitors per year. Through these spaces and our diverse network of community partnerships, we invite the public (and ourselves) to dream of a future where creativity, curiosity and intersectional design thrive in Texas.
Learn more at futurefronttexas.org.
For Elena, skincare means whole body health! From the gut to the mind, everything we consume internally or externally determines the health of our skin. Elena’s approach to skin health centers consistency and intentionality with simple, plant based ingredients. With a warm West Texas soul, and personality as vibrant as Austin, Elena welcomes you to experience the celebration of your best self in her treatment room at eleMINT Skin in East Austin.
FEMINIST, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
Aisha Becker-Burrowes (She/Her) is a social entrepreneur and impact consultant based in Harlem, NY. Her work sits at the intersections of media and social change empowering audiences to address pressing social issues. Co-founding and serving as the co-executive director of FEMINIST (@feminist), a women-led non-profit media company and the largest social-first digital platform dedicated to women, girls and gender-expansive people with an audience of over 6M+, she seeks to amplify voices worldwide. As the founder of Studio Watts, a social impact agency and creative collective made up of radical communicators, mission-driven storytellers, and purpose-fueled creatives of color, Aisha draws on her extensive experience at some of the largest media companies today to advance social, racial, and gender justice through storytelling and advocacy. Aisha holds a master's degree in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University. Additionally, she serves on the advisory board of RespectAbility, a disability-led nonprofit.
Fos Feminista, Associate Director
Luna Borges is a Brazilian feminist activist, scholar, and lawyer with more than thirteen years of work, including evidence-based advocacy training, experience in public interest in Brazil and internationally – both within government and with civil society. In the last 5 years, she has focused her work and scholarship on social and legal mobilization for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She is currently an Associate Director at Fòs Feminista, leading a multiyear and multicountry project on self-care, abortion access and advocacy. At Fòs, she has also been working in orchestrating transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the Sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice ecosystem. Relying on her social research training, she aims to better understand the connections between different systems of oppression in critical theory and praxis.
MOVE Texas, Gender Justice Organizer
Andrea Flores (she/her) was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She is a first-generation graduate from Texas A&M University in College Station with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Communications and Journalism. During her studies at Texas A&M she was the first Latina to serve the institution’s Senior Class President. Andrea was recently promoted to the position as the Gender Justice Organizer at MOVE Texas which is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization building power in underrepresented youth communities through civic education, leadership development and issue advocacy. She is also pursuing her Master’s Degree as a current first-year graduate student at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas in Austin. She was also a Planning and Zoning Commissioner in Dallas County. Andrea has a strong interest in organizing young people and civic engagement/education and is ready to make a big change in Texas.
Amnesty International USA, Tech & Reproductive Rights Fellow
Jane Eklund supports Amnesty International USA’s work to fight the suppression of reproductive health and rights information online as the Tech and Reproductive Rights Fellow. She is passionate about working toward a future where all people can seek the reproductive healthcare they need without fear or impediment. Prior to her role as a fellow, she worked with AIUSA’s Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Program on state level abortion rights work and research on human rights abuses against Indigenous women in the US.
Fight For The Future, Campaigner
Sarah Philips is a community organizer, abolitionist, and creator from Houston, Texas. They are a campaigner at Fight for the Future, a digital rights organization, where they focus on free expression issues, abortion surveillance, and how LGBTQ youth use the internet. She came to this work from years of youth organizing in reproductive justice, abolition, and South Asian diasporic racial justice movements. In her spare time, she makes content about fandom, romance novels, and any passing media hyperfixation.
Project for Empty Space, Co-Founder
Rebecca Pauline Jampol, based in Newark, NJ, is the Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a public art curator, educator, and designer. Her creative endeavors are centered on fostering complex social discourse and community building. Noteworthy among her extensive community initiatives are projects like Gateways to Newark, Four Corners Public Arts, and The Newark Artist Collaboration.
In 2019, she co-founded the Body Freedom for (Every)Body initiative (originally titled Abortion Is Normal) in response to state-level challenges to abortion access. This Fall, the Body Freedom For Every(Body) mobile art museum will travel nationwide, partnering with local organizations to create awareness, cultivate community, and engender support for body autonomy through art.
She is a proud mom of Adele Rae (5) and Apollo (5 months).
Plan C, Partnerships & Engagement Manager
Imani (she/her) is the Partnerships and Engagement Manager at Plan C. At Plan C, Imani facilitates community partnerships to increase awareness of abortion pill access nationwide. She also provides lectures, webinars, and educational videos on how to advocate for increased access to abortion pills by mail in diverse communities. In her spare time, Imani is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University and is passionate about transforming family planning systems and institutions to empower individuals of color to make informed and affirmed reproductive choices.
Kiana is a digital and product marketing strategist with roots in online advocacy and community organizing. After working as a community activist campaigning for universal healthcare and increasing the minimum wage to $15 in Seattle, she took community building digital for the agency Best Practice Media and for brands like NaturallyCurly and Essence, Radical Girl Gang, and Teach For America. Currently, Kiana is the Executive Director for Charley, the abortion chatbot co-created by ineedana, Plan C, and M&A Hotline, designed to protect user privacy and simplify the abortion seeker journey. Kiana believes that tech, when designed with intention, can dismantle inequity and is excited about the opportunity to do this with Charley.
The Body Freedom DIY Zine is a resource-sharing, community-building activity designed to empower and encourage the celebration of identities. Whether in a group setting or at home, participants are encouraged to use the prompts given to create and explore strategies for overcoming current barriers to body autonomy. Debuting at SXSW, the activity is accompanied by a highlighter palette, custom sticker set, and tools to assist in communicating the importance of action, especially in the face of numerous bans locally and nationally aimed at restricting our body freedom.
This SXSW we are celebrating the launch of our collaborative campaign on Body Freedom! BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY).
Project for Empty Space Project For Empty Space is teaming up with Fight For the Future, For Freedoms, Plan C ,and Women on Web to present a multi-site arts activation addressing Big Tech’s complicity in the attack on body autonomies and its role in fueling these attacks through invasive data collection and abortion information suppression.
The Body Freedom campaign presents bright, large-scale typographic calls-to-action created in collaboration with designer Chantal Fischzang. It includes information on Big Tech’s abortion surveillance and censorship, artworks from the Body Freedoms program, and a variety of For Freedoms billboards focused on related issues exploring what would it look like if advertising, like art, asked questions instead of answering them. This series of visuals will be mounted on MOBILE DIGITAL BILLBOARDS, in LARGE-SCALE PROJECTIONS, in a mass-produced/distributed resource pamphlet and poster, and in a Zine-making activity.
From March 8-11, our mobile digital billboards will be driving around downtown Austin, focusing on central SXSW locations, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Texas Capitol!
From March 8-13, the artwork and messages will also be projected in various central SXSW locations, including the Line Hotel and the Austin Convention Center.
On March 10, the billboard will be stationed outside the the Future Front House and will be part of the one day conversations and activations on Care including an all-day zine workshop.
Body Freedom Artworks and For Freedoms commissioned billboards presented include artists David Antonio Cruz, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Eric Hart Jr., Aurora James, Marilyn Minter, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Zhaleh Phillips, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Thank God for Abortion, and Jasmine Wahi.
Learn more at: https://linktr.ee/bodyfreedomforeverybody
