“We felt it our responsibility to depict the war on Black women’s bodies raging in this conservative state,” said KatoriHall, creator of Starz’s PValley.
and subsequently removed federal protections of the legal right to an abortion, now an issue decided by individual states.
The goal is not to escape hellfire but to walk through that fire with the ones you love—as Mercedes did, walking through a wall of anti-abortion protesters with her daughter at the last abortion clinic of Mississippi. … A choice made in fiction has now been stripped by the state in reality. In the storyline, Terricka is right on the cusp. Since the Supreme Court decision, the clinic closed its doors on July 6, 2022—a bitter reminder that the poignant choice Terricka makes in fiction, in which her mother allows her to take the keys to her car and make a choice to drive straight back home to Chucalissa or make a right turn to Jackson for her appointment , has now been taken away for so many young Black girls in the same predicament.
Just as critical is the engagement with popular culture and Black female sexuality, as Mercedes confronts the fact that her daughter knows all the explicit lyrics to Cardi B and Meg Thee Stallion’s “” but does not even know how many weeks she is in her pregnancy.
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