The Billboard: A Play About Abortion Book Launch and Discussion

The Billboard is about a fictional Black women’s clinic in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard: “Abortion is genocide. The most dangerous place for a Black child is his mother’s womb,” spurring on the clinic to fight back with their own provocative sign: “Black women take care of their families by taking care of themselves. Abortion is self-care. #Trust Black Women.”

As a play and book, The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice.

Join us for a limited-capacity in-person book launch event and discussion featuring a performance from The Billboard and a conversation with playwright Natalie Y. Moore and director TaRon Patton. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for those attending in person. For those attending in-person doors will open at 6 PM.

The event will also be livestreamed for those unable to attend in-person. Closed captioning will be available for the livestream.