Some have expressed the concern that by extending Justice Alito’s reasoning, other hard-won rights - such as the rights to contraception and marriage equality - could be struck down too. Wade is overturned.Īnd there are other disturbing considerations in the draft decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito. As many as 25 states are poised to ban abortion the moment Roe v. Still, it is a harbinger of terrible things to come. The Supreme Court has issued a statement emphasizing that the draft, while authentic, may still change. Abortion is still legal, though it is largely inaccessible in parts of the country. The same mostly male politicians who oppose abortion so often do everything in their power to oppose rights to paid parental leave, subsidized child care, single-payer health care or any kind of social safety net that could improve family life. Despite promises from the anti-abortion movement to support pregnant women and children, the “pro-life” lobby appears to be invested only in the unborn. These burdens disproportionately fall upon poor and working-class women without the means to travel across state lines to receive the care they need.
Without the right to abortion, women are forced to make terrible choices. Any civil right contingent upon political whims is not actually a civil right. ET on Tuesday, April 6.We should not live in a country where bodily autonomy can be granted or taken away by nine political appointees, most of whom are men and cannot become pregnant. A virtual service will be held at 1:50 p.m. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in DiTrapano's honor to Mountain State Spotlight, a civic journalism project for and by West Virginians. (Its name, translated from the Latin, means "your death, my life.")ĭiTrapano is survived by his husband, Giuseppe Avallone his mother, Martha and his siblings. At that same villa, DiTrapano and his friend Chelsea Hodson, the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else, ran Mors Tua Vita Mea, a semi-annual, week-long writing workshop, starting in 2017. He taught fiction and editing classes at Catapult, and lectured regularly on writing and literature in both English and Italian.ĭuring his New York Tyrant days, he established an annual fiction award named for his late older brother, Lidano Albert DiTrapano, which included a round-trip plane ticket to Italy and a week at Villa DiTrapano, the family home in Sezze Romano. And his ardor for discovering and helping to develop literary talent extended beyond publishing proper as well, especially into teaching. While best known as an editor and publisher, DiTrapano published his own work in such outlets as the Paris Review, Playboy, and VICE. He later decided to sell the book to Knopf, he told The Intercept earlier this year, "because A) I was broke and B) since Tyrant is a small press, I was afraid the book would get overlooked." It was Tyrant that first acquired the novel, in 2013, and DiTrapano who performed the first rounds of edits. The success of Nico Walker, whose novel Cherry was published by Knopf in 2018 and adapted into a film earlier this year, is the perfect example. McClanahan has his own take on the matter: "In the years to come, it will be acknowledged," he said, that "Gian helped shape and change the literary culture of the 21st century."Ī somewhat self-styled anti-establishment figure, the West Virginia–born DiTrapano's influence also extended further into traditional New York publishing than was always public knowledge. And if you’re publishing something for everyone, well, you’re publishing water." "Or at least nothing that’s worth anything. "Tyrant stuff isn’t for everyone, but nothing should be for everyone," he once said. That meant, at Tyrant, publishing such works as Atticus Lish's Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a PW Picks selection in 2014 The Complete Gary Lutz by Gary Lutz, which received a starred review in PW and The Sarah Bookby Scott McClanahan, which the New York Times called, in its review, "not a book you savor," but "one you inhale."ĭiTrapano had his critics, but that was never a problem. Those who knew DiTrapano said he had a singular eye for talent and a particular passion for work that pushed against boundaries.