Aiming to expose the extent to which abortion is inaccurately represented as the primary focus of Planned Parenthood, Be Oakley utilizes the digital candidness of Google Earth screenshots in his Abortion Services zine to isolate and abstract Planned Parenthood protesters in front of clinics throughout the country. Oakley’s work derives its specific manipulation of cultural intolerance from a commitment to protect the hard-fought vocality of queer agency that contends with stagnant hetero-normativity; his visual isolation of the protesters surrounding the clinic serves to disintegrate the surroundings and group mentality that provide room for angry, solipsistic individuals to converge and validate each other.

Tags of the clinics’ locations within the United States affirms Oakley’s assertion of Planned Parenthood’s centrality within the “recent attacks on the reproductive rights of women”. There is a familiar intelligence behind Oakley’s placement of the protesters within awkward, vacuums fields of white; his own experiential identity as a queer person up against the “agency of some rural, white, cisgender men” has generated a sense of urgency and fear, among a sensitivity to the spatial queues of a fringe group while it begins to surround its controversy.