why molly crabapple thought it was important to share her story. that's next on talk to al jazeera. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> this is talk to al jazeera with me, stephanie sy. i'm speaking this week with the author and artist, molly crabapple. some of what you write about in this book is very, very personal, including your abortion. and you had a really bad infection after the procedure. did you debate, molly, whether or not to include that in the book? and why did you ultimately decide to? >> i actually had written about my abortion before in an essay for vice. and of all the essays i've written, that was the one that i got the most positive and heartfelt feedback from. so many women wrote to me, women who had had abortions that were illegal wrote to me. older women who had had to have the procedure, you know, by hack doctors pre roe v. wade here wrote to me to thank me. young women who had

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. >> jennifer kaban and you changed it to molly crabapple. you described in a part of the pormentation. i wondered whether the nude work was also part of that sort of physical experimentation. >> it actually, i never thought of it that way. i had broken up with my long-term boyfriend since i was 15 years old, i guess. and i was 19 and living in new york and i need to get a job obviously, and i think that it was just the time when there were so many changes in my life happening all at once. >> it's interesting how you're able to dig deeper into it in your memoir. you wrote, i wanted to see if i could work in a field as fraught and sigmatized as sex and emerge unscathed. toichltd burn off childhood. did you emerge from that experience unscathed? >> who emerges from life unscathed? men, for instance, are always encouraged to go out into the world and get wounds. right? so many men i have known have joined the military not to defend their country but because they wanted today have an adventure soo many do all sorts of risky things. with women, we

. >> this week on "talk to al jazeera" -- artist, author and reporter molly crabapple. >> what i think my art brought to my journalism is that i didn't come to journalism with the sort of bias towards faux objectivity... i deeply believe in having an extreme bias towards reality. >> in her youth, she traveled europe and the near east, and worked as a nude model and

molly crabapple. >> i didn't come to journalism with the sort of bias towards objectivity. deeply believe in having an extreme bias toward reality. >> in her youth, she traveled europe and the near east and worked anu

this reporter molly crabapple. >> what i think my art brought to my journalism is that i didn't cometo journalism with the sort of bias towards faux objectivity... i deeply believe in having an extreme bias towards reality. >> in her youth, she traveled europe and the near east, and worked as a nude model and danced burlesque. >> so much of women, so much of what our virtue is supposed to cot

jazeera dolt compass pass >> this week on "talk to al jazeera" -- artist, author and reporter molly crabapple. >> what i think my art brought to my journalism is that i didn't come to journalism with the sort of bias towards faux objectivity... i deeply believe in having an extreme bias towards reality. >> in her youth, she traveled europe and the near east, and worked as a nude model and danced burlesque. >> so much of women, so much of what our virtue is supposed to consist of is maintaining this sort of, like, pearly, innocent