Hello. This is Jane.

Judith Arcanas remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint tile by tile a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- childrens playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges youll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages. -Cindy Cooper Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers Daughters Every Mothers Son and What if your mother are feminist classics. The stories in this new collection rooted in her experience as a Jane in Chicagos pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive justice. By necessity these stories reach from the past into the future offering history and hope.Im profoundly grateful to Judith Arcana for writing these vital electrifying stories. With abortion rights in America being stripped away-state by state clinic by clinic-we need to hear from those whove fought this battle before. Arcana is a Jane; her work in the pre-Roe abortion underground has provide the seeds for her fiction stories rooted in essential history to spark action in our terrifying present. -Leni Zumas Author of Red Clocks