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Collected Item: “Remember when it wasn't "your body, your choice"?”

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Remember when it wasn't "your body, your choice"?

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram post

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is an Instagram post from dontfollowpatrick. This is a meme posted regarding bodily autonomy. For pandemic skeptics, "my body, my choice" has been common rhetoric with things like masks and vaccines. Dissenters claim that it is not a valid argument because the actions of one person in a public health crisis affect other people around them. With things like abortion, it is seen as an individual decision that does not affect others the way not wearing a mask would.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

public health, mask, bodily autonomy, abortion, meme, pandemic skeptic, HST580, ASU

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

dontfollowpatrick

Give this story a date.

2022-06-26
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