Huq: I seek no favor is a special edition newsprint in response to the abortion ban. It brings together artists and thinkers who believe in collective political action, articulating the multiple identities, cultures and diverse lives this abortion ban affects. It is an expression of intersections such as Urdu and Black Femme resistance: Huq is an Urdu word for rights. I seek no favor originates from an Audre Lorde poem “a woman speaks.”
Each collaborator is assigned four distinct pages from the 213-page legal document and this newsprint is a collection of their responses. In the act of defiance, we speak back to the system which uses our bodies as a tool for our oppression and perpetuates historical inequality.
Featuring artists like Justine Kurland, Pamela Sneed, Aspen Mays, Aline Smithson, and many others
