March 19, 2026
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
105 Behrakis Hall
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Join Northeastern WGSS for our Women Take the Reel festival screening of No One Asked You by Ruth Leitman. Comedian Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and Abortion Access Front crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, anti-abortion extremists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues. A bold call to action reminds us that even as our rights burn down, joy will prevail.
The film screening will be preceded by a discussion on the current state of abortion rights moderated by Professor Suzanna Walters and featuring WGSS executive committee member and visiting assistant professor of Law Sarah Lee Day, and Taylor St. Germain, Interim Co-Executive Director of Reproductive Equity Now. Professor Walters will moderate a Q&A with audience members after the film as well.
Sarah Lee Day is a visiting assistant teaching professor in the Legal Skills in Social Context. She was previously a justice catalyst fellow at Reproductive Equity Now, where she performed legal policy work on abortion and bodily autonomy in a post-Dobbs America, drafted continuing education courses in support of contraceptive access, and consulted with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the White House Gender Policy Council. Professor Day earned her JD from Northeastern University School of Law, where her co-ops included human rights legal advocacy with the Due Diligence Project, reproductive rights impact litigation with the Lawyering Project and reproductive rights policy work with NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. Prior to law school, Professor Day obtained a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, a BS in psychology from Arizona State University and an MA in social justice and human rights from Arizona State University. Professor Day also teaches at Tufts University Experimental College, where her courses focus on the right to abortion, the law as social control and the transformative powers of law.
Taylor St. Germain (she/her) is the Interim Executive Director of Reproductive Equity Now. Since joining the organization in 2022, Taylor has helped lead the organization’s response to the fall of Roe v. Wade, including advancing Massachusetts’s best-in-the-nation shield law, organizing a regional coalition of advocates, abortion providers, and abortion funds, and guiding the organization’s expansion into New Hampshire and Connecticut. Previously, Taylor served as Reproductive Equity Now’s Deputy Director and Communications Director, as well as Press Secretary to U.S. Senator Ed Markey, where she also played a key role in statewide communications for his successful 2020 re-election campaign.
This screening is part of the Women Take the Reel Film Festival, hosted by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) and other affiliated colleges and universities. For more information about the festival and other screenings in the area, visit https://www.gcws.mit.edu/women-take-the-reel-2026.
