“On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost”

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Title“On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost”
Year for Search2022
AuthorsVickerson, Dana
Secondary TitleReckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice
Date PublishedOctober 30, 2022
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17.

URLhttps://reckoning.press/on-this-day-and-all-days-i-think-about-what-i-have-lost/
Info Notes

The volume is a response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), decisions that held abortion to be a right protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author
Full Text

2022 Vickerson, Dana. “On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost.” Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (October 30, 2022). https://reckoning.press/on-this-day-and-all-days-i-think-about-what-i-have-lost/ Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17. The volume is a response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), decisions that held abortion to be a right protected by the U.S. Constitution. PSt 

The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive. Female author.