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Mel Pearce

Mel Pearce is a Perth-based artist / illustrator whose work often explores a balance of strength and fragility through her use of mark-making. Her work has appeared in dotdotdash and Voiceworks and is featured on the West Australian Young Readers Book Award poster for 2017. She is currently in Japan studying Japanese and manga techniques.

Mansplaining Abortion in Alexis Late’s ‘Procedure’

In stanzas 1 to 3 the speaker begins in conversations experienced as attack, with a metaphor of a hunter trapping an insect, and the speaker expressing herself as insect under threat of being devoured.

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