Paula Kamen
@paulakamen.bsky.social
Playwright and author of All in My Head, Her Way, Finding Iris Chang. For upcoming readings of Jane play, see paulakamen.com. Founder of HystericalFest. Streaming here for 3 months after August 28: https://paulakamen.eventbrite.com/
The Chicago Reader delivers about HystericalFest, live in Evanston this weekend and then streaming for 6 months. First feminist theater festival on invisible disability
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · 2mo agoA new short-plays festival highlights the reality and absurdity of women living with chronic illness and invisible disabilities. https://bit.ly/4wMaFkp
“For every sick person who’s loud or demanding or belligerent, somewhere within a medical suite there’s another who’s sugarcoating, suppressing or understating her pain,” Allison Sweet Grant writes.
Opinion | Why Women Learn to Reassure Their Doctors That Everything’s Just Fine
Is it OK to raise this issue? I don’t want to be a bother.
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We love our remote actors! HystericalFest, first comedy fest on invisible disability with a feminist POV, will be streaming 8-29 to 11-28. Tix here: paulakamen.eventbrite.com
Proud to boost this provocative film with an interview in @chicagomag.com
Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 6mo agoA new documentary, “Revisiting Utopia,” details the Park Forest’s unorthodox plan to racially integrate the village, and its lasting effects on those who grew up there. buff.ly/7vqoluB
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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And Jewish women’s loins have never been the same since #robertrredford His memory is a blessing. www.nydailynews.com/2023/01/20/b...
Behind the scenes drama almost derailed Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford’s classic ‘The Way We Were’
It was a movie nobody liked making. The producer worried it cost too much, yet the director felt he was spending too little. The leading man called the script “a piece of junk,” and the…
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RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Michiana in the fall is lovely this time of year! Come see a staged reading of Dionne’s House, about a libertine feminist philosopher obsessed with dieting, at Dunes Theatre Sept 20.
Tell all your billionaire friends to save the @uptowntheatre.bsky.social!
Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · last yr.Paula Kamen’s article on the new book by me and Andy Pierce:
One afternoon only! This Saturday at 3:30 @yippiefest.bsky.social in Chicago. A pilot for possible “Women Act Out” comedy fest on #invisible illness.
One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.
harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC. time.com/7269604/el-s... www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
Tomorrow at Oakton College in Des Plaines, IL. I will be there after each performance to share my wisdom
BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its unlawful freeze on foreign assistance funds. The administration's illegal actions halted life-saving health programs around the globe and will cost thousands of American jobs.
Jane reading is sold out but online streaming is available for diehards for Monday, for the best counter programming in town
Eileen Tull (she/her)@eileentull.bsky.social · 2y agoY'all we are making a push for $1000 more this weekend. We're raising money for Planned Parenthood and Chicago Abortion Fund. Visit to donate: www.eventbrite.com/e/jane-abort...
Reading tonight, panel tomorrow night. The second benefit reading of this play for an abortion fund where abortion has been severely restricted.
Powerstories Theatre@powerstories.bsky.social · 2y agoTampa Bay women, join us on January 6 and 7 for a two-night special event at HCC Mainstage Ybor City for Jane: Abortion and the Underground at 7pm. The next evening attend a live Zoom with three original Jane's who helped women get safe abortions. #womensbodilyautonomy Www.powerstories.com/jane
