The Last Trimester
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Working notes
“The Last Trimester” is one of a series of digital images that demonstrate contemporary radical feminist perspectives on motherhood themes, images that reflect key controversies in today’s socio-political discourse. This image represents the conflict between agency and social control of life and death, specifically the pressure to prolong life at all cost, even when that life is spent. The elderly mother figure, encompassed by the suggestion of medical technology that prevents her death — her “third trimester” — is juxtaposed with the words of a pregnant mother-to-be anxiously awaiting the conclusion to the final phase of giving life. Honoring individual choices within the cycle of life and death is a decidedly feminist-environmentalist position
About the artist
Kit-Bacon Gressitt has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from California State University San Marcos and is a former editorial board member and feminist columnist for the San Diego North County Times, where her readers started a fan club and sent her death threats, but the sales department loved her. Today, she lives and writes in Fallbrook, California, and her feminist commentary and political fiction are published by San Diego-area progressive news outlets and on her blog, www.excusemeimwriting.com. K-B can be reached at kbgressitt@gmail.com.
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For an updated list of works published in TRIVIA, please see this artist's contributor page.