Sharp Relief
Watching Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” post-Roe.
Image from "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of Women," 1907. The Internet Archive Book Images, via Flickr. Yoko Ono is dressed beautifully, and the first women to approach know exactly which pieces of her clothing they will remove. The very first goes for a slice of sleeve, cutting vertically from Ono’s wrist up her forearm, taking a slip of fabric roughly the length and shape of a hot dog. The second snips a piece of her cardigan’s collar detail. The third takes a bit of the placket to which a line of glinting buttons
