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The project that I plan on making and have been conducting research and interviews for is about women's bodily autonomy and how America is going backwards. With the overturing of Roe v. Wade, women have had major set backs to healthcare, personal rights and freedom to do as they want and need to do. The plan is to fill the space with clothing racks, symbolic of the way America is with consumerism and the constant want for more. This will draw interest in the space as the parking lot experiment is not about selling items so what is on the clothing racks? On the clothing racks will be metal clothing hangers bent into different works "barbaric law", "never again", "misogyny", "violated rights" in my research I am still narrowing down the succinct words that will be used (I have 2 more interviews that will better educate me). These will be pretty large and dipped in red wax to give a greater effect of blood and how wrong things are becoming. The ban of abortion does not stop abortion, it merely creates unsafe abortions and health risks. This project requires no outlets or special equipment. The title Fire Sale: Natural Rights I think captures the nature of what is happening, the old safe guards have been burned away and people are left to pick through the ashes to find what remains of their rights. I use natural rights as a way to also shed light on the fact that not all uterus owners identify as female/women/afab and this is a practice that has been done for millennia because it is a part of healthcare. There will also be prop containers of bleach next to the racks as well, symbolizing the many ways desperate women have tried to regain control in their lives.