Listen to this research outtake about how one Louisiana woman decided to take action about the first direct hit to destroy abortion rights. Letters Read director first interviewed Allyn Goff in 2025 for the Terri Bartlett reading. Goff became close to Bartlett as they both worked tirelessly for reproductive rights in Louisiana.

Allyn Goff joined NOW, National Organization for Women in 1989 and became president of the Louisiana chapter.

In 1989, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a United States Supreme Court decision upheld a Missouri law imposing "restrictions on the use of state funds, facilities, and employees in performing, assisting with, or counseling an abortion. The Supreme Court in Webster allowed for states to legislate in an aspect that had previously been thought to be forbidden under Roe v. Wade (1973)." —wikipedia.org

Remembering the Legacy of Terri Bartlett.

In 1984, Terri Bartlett moved to New Orleans to found Planned Parenthood Louisiana. For more than a decade thereafter, Bartlett fought tirelessly for reproductive rights and human dignity in this state.

This performance endeavors to serve as an inspiring model for grassroots and political activism, justice, and equal rights for all.

Watch a video of the live event, HERE.

And, watch this brief story about the event on NOLA NPR with Dave Walker and The Museum Goer.

Welcome to the first, full, 2025 Letters Read episode. This program was recorded in two locations. The overlying structure in a studio. The other in a noisy restaurant near Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, during lunch. You will be able to hear the difference. Thanks to Steve Czyck who engineered it all together.

In this podcast, we meet Angela Breckenridge, PhD educator and Mr. Tedd Walley, cartoon artist, designer, and educator.

They were mature adults when they met, fell in love, and married. This is truly a love story. More it is—as the title suggests—about sex and love, gender, and trust through the letters and memories of a cis-gender, normative, monogamous couple in the twenty-first century.

References to research material can be found HERE and the previous, Incubator podcast can be found HERE.

Antenna is this project's fiscal sponsor. This project is brought to you with major support from Corner Foundation a our very anonymous donation.