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DOI

10.7486/DRI.rv04gg256

Title

Repeal the Eighth and Reproductive Rights Interview with Paola Rivetti

Description

The interviewee is an Italian female migrant in her 30s. She talks about her experience of activism in Italy prior to becoming involved in pro-choice campaigning in Ireland with MERJ. She talks about her difficulties in finding a way to become close to the Abortion Rights Campaign. While being very critical of some aspects of the campaign, particularly her belief that the campaign tended to erase migrant women’s experiences, the interviewee recognises its efficacy. She praises the way conflict with pro-lifers was handled by pro-choice activists. She talks about the sense of belonging she felt in Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ). As a member of MERJ, a grassroots group that, according to the interviewee, felt quite marginalised by the main campaign, she reflects on the position of ‘relative’ power that her organization was afforded by constantly challenging white feminism without fear of consequences. Topics also discussed include: Strike For Repeal

Creators

Aileen O'CarrollDavid LandyMaire Ni Mhordha

Date

2019

Published by Digital Repository of Ireland

05/01/2021

Subjects

AnarchismAbortionreproductive rightsProtest movementsConstitutional law—Ireland—The Eighth AmendmentReferendumSocial changeSocial mediaPersonal narrativesMigrants For Reproductive Justice

Subjects (Places)

IrelandDublin

Subjects (Temporal)

Twenty-first century

Types

Interviews (data collection)

Text

Sound

Language

English

Rights

Copyright Aileen O’Carroll and David Landy,CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)

Reuse Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Metadata Statement

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Depositing Organisation

Irish Qualitative Data Archive