A Blindfold in Mexico City, and a Short Film That Imagines a World Without Abortion Rights

Lesser choices, directed by Courtney Stephens, is described by Psyche as a recollection of being blindfolded and fearful in Mexico City, framed as a vision of a world without abortion rights.

Speculative work of this kind does something argument alone struggles with: it renders the interior texture of a restriction — fear, helplessness, the loss of control over your own body — rather than its statute. That is an aesthetic claim, not a political one, and it is why the imagined-world format keeps getting used for questions that are otherwise argued in legislature language.