Faculty of Design

Illustration

Allison Wallace

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings depicts the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre using the plot of the killer Leatherface as an analogy for women being seen as murderers for getting abortions. Part of Leatherface’s character is that he doesn’t really know what he is doing because of how he was raised and abused, much like how many people do not think women know what they are doing when they decide to get an abortion. In reality women do not get abortions for the sake of killing a baby, it is for their own mental or physical health. Lady Leatherface being surrounded by dead pigs, including pregnant pigs she has gutted, is an extreme emphasis on how women are seen after having gotten an abortion, like ruthless, depraved killers.