Women have faced growing concerns about abortion restrictions, pregnancy criminalization, healthcare privacy, funding for reproductive programs, and access to providers. These changes have created a complicated healthcare environment in which reproductive options can vary significantly depending on where someone lives and their circumstances.

Ultimately, societies must confront the fact that violence against women is often preceded by narratives that deny women's humanity. Whether in religious spaces, school grounds, or in rooms where decisions regarding women's existence are made political, it must be aggressively confronted. Online incel culture did not invent misogyny, but it has amplified and organized it in unprecedented ways.

If I had to sum up the book fair, I would say the book fair was a place of peace, comfort, love, the masterpiece that is Black women, and the magic of people who never want to color inside the lines. I came, I saw, I bought, and I loved everything in a space that doesn't really allow for Black authors, especially Black women.