About the bookIn the fall of 2018, Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova became pregnant and about seven weeks later, they had an abortion surgery. This book is about the transformation that happened, and which continued. A Story about Potential Dimensions, Abortion, and the Blurry Appearing and Disappearing of Matter About the AuthorMagdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a curator and an artist who works to create training grounds for bravery, autonomy, and liberation. This book It Is: You Appeared Once, A Story about Potential Dimensions, Abortion, and the Blurry Appearing and Disappearing of Matter is an iteration of their text previously titled Body.(x)n that appeared as a sound piece and as a participatory performance.About sabotage L.A. publishingsabotage L.A. publishing was founded in Berlin in 2021. ‘Sabotage’ lies between compliance and resistance, betweenwhat is and what could be. After our first publication “Tools for Men-with-Feminist-Ambitions”, this book “It is: You appeared once” is the second in our series.