Dear Reader,

Our first issue, “Egg,” marks The Dial’s entrance into the world. Every month, we will publish original reporting and literature organized around a pressing subject or question. This month’s issue focuses on the global fight for bodily autonomy and reproductive justice.

We are thrilled to present the first pieces from our debut issue:

In Buenos Aires, Lucía Cholakian Herrera speaks with three women — a doctor, a politician and an activist — who helped overturn Argentina’s abortion ban.

In Warsaw, Agnieszka Wądołowska reports on the ongoing trial of abortion-rights activist Justyna Wydrzyńska, who faces up to 3 years in prison for supplying a pregnant woman with abortion pills.

From Istanbul, Kaya Genç reports on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s natalist turn, documenting how the effort to restrict abortion access in Turkey has led to increased surveillance of and legal action against doctors and patients alike.

And we are pleased to publish poems by Shin Hae-uk, translated from Korean by Spencer Lee-Lenfield.

The Dial will also publish journalism, literature and essays in translation, bringing new and celebrated voices from beyond the Anglosphere to our readers for the first time. To that end, our first issue includes a conversation between the Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux and the filmmaker Céline Sciamma on their childhood memories, their artistic development and contemporary feminism. Artfully translated from the French by Lauren Elkin, the conversation originally appeared in the French feminist journal La Déferlante.

In the coming weeks, we will publish more reporting and literature from our first issue.

Thank you for reading The Dial!

— Madeleine, Linda and the Dial team