Photo: Teri Mack
I write and I edit – science to stories, from the field or from the desk. My writing has been published in academic journals, on blogs, and in magazines. Recent clips are below.
The Guardian
- Violence against women won’t just disappear – but progress is possible, 4 March 2013
- Sex in America: People’s Panel, 13 March 2012
- The US is Out of Sync on Contraception, 10 Jan 2012
- Women Can Be Independent and Intimate, 22 Oct 2011
Ms. Magazine
- Birth Control for Men?, Fall 2011
Ms. Magazine Blog (see all)
- Is Polygamy Inherently Bad for Women?, 5 Jan 2011
- The World Turns a Blind Eye to Women of the Ivory Coast, 31 March 2011
- How to Reduce Abortion Stigma? Take a Clue from the Global HIV/AIDS Movement, 28 June 2011
RH Reality Check (see all)
- Who Owns the Farm? Land Rights Push in China Leaves Women Without a Plot to Stand On, 27 Feb 2012
- Dawn of a New Hope For Whom? Violence and Impunity Still Plague Women in Ivory Coast, 6 March 2012
- The Onerous Toll of the Helms Amendment and What President Obama Can Do to Change It, 17 Jan 2012
- Ethiopia Gets on the Pill, and That Matters for Africa, 12 Jan 2012
Reproductive Health Matters
- Unsafe Abortion and Abortion Care in Khartoum, Sudan, Vol.17, Issue 34: Nov 2009
AlterNet (see all)
- Portland, Oregon – Strip Club City? Media Freak-Out Over Trafficking in Everyone’s Favorite Hippie Utopia, 12 Sept 2011
- Boy or Girl? Why Do More Americans Prefer Male Children?, 11 July 2011
- Teens Locked Up and Forced to Give Birth to Kids Sold into Slavery — How Can This Happen, and What CanWe Do About It?, 10 June 2011
Feministe
- Objectification, Your Honor, 6 Jan 2012
- Fall Into the [Reverse Gender] Gap, 19 Dec 2011
- Where Dark Tourism Meets Global Feminism, 8 Sept 2011
- Oversimplifying Sex Slavery: Demi, Ashton, and Badvocacy, 22 April 2011(cross-posted with Gender Across Borders)
Gender Across Borders (see all)
- 18-part blog series, Tsk, Tsk: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality, Sept 2011
- How Aid Fails Women: A Conversation with William Easterly, 5 May 2011 (featured in Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish; cross-posted at Aidwatch, Feministe, and Foreign Policy in Focus)
- To Be Feminist and Fair: The Nuance of Bristol Palin, 28 April 2010 (re-published on Jezebel)
- Book Review: Half the Sky: Cover to Cover, 14 Oct 2009
Foreign Policy In Focus
- The UN and Saudi Women 11 April 2011
- Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel, 13 July 2011
Global Health Magazine
Because Magazine
- One Woman’s Story and the Role of Institutionalized Stigma in Ghana, Fall 2011 Issue
Women in Media & News: WIMN’s Voices
