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AUTONOMY NEWS
Autonomy News is a new worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication co-founded by Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas, featuring original reporting and sharp analysis that applies a human rights framework to issues including abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care.
“Ohio Anti-Abortion Bill Sponsor Runs a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Few News Stories Mentioned It.”
“The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.”
“Kansas Fights To Keep Abortion Restrictions, With Help From Alliance Defending Freedom”
“The Associated Press Does Free PR for Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
“Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.” — published in collaboration with Mother Jones
“Planned Parenthood Confirms It Considered Allowing Some Affiliates to Drop Abortion Care”
“Texas Woman Files Wrongful Death Suit, Alleges Man Slipped Abortion Pills in Her Drink”
“OBGYNs Sent ‘Highly Biased’ Survey By Group That Targeted Abortion Pills”
“Planned Parenthood May Allow Affiliates to Drop Abortion Care to Avoid ‘Defunding’”
“‘They Called Us Ungrateful': Abortion Providers Say Texas Exam Puts Them and Patients at Risk”
REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH
rewire news group
“Community Networks Provide Free Abortion Pills in Restrictive States—Despite Risks”
“Following National Funding Cuts, ‘July Was Pure Hell’ for Abortion Funds”
“The Complicated State of Abortion Access Across the Midwest”
“Supreme Court Rules Idaho Doctors Can Provide Emergency Abortions—For Now”
“A Bill to Undo the Comstock Act Is Finally Here. Why Isn’t It a Full Repeal?”
“Mifepristone Is Safe for Now—but Comstock Is Waiting in the Wings”
“Exclusive: Doctors Resign in Protest From Kansas Abortion Clinic”
“Under Brazil’s Abortion Ban, ‘Lack of Information Kills’” — International Women’s Media Foundation Reporting Fellowship
“Inside a São Paulo ‘Crisis Pregnancy Center’” — International Women’s Media Foundation Reporting Fellowship
“Hawaii Has an Opportunity to Improve Gender-Affirming Care Access”
“The Dominican Republic Women Who ‘Do Not Exist to the State’” — Reported on an International Women’s Media Foundation/Women’s Equality Center Legislative Reporting Trip
“In the Dominican Republic, I Saw Broken U.S. Abortion Policy Firsthand” — Reported on an International Women’s Media Foundation/Women’s Equality Center Legislative Reporting Trip
Special Report: Idaho’s Reproductive Health Crisis and Christian Nationalism — Three-part series funded by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund
“Florida’s Legal Showdown Over Viability Could Threaten Future Abortion Advocacy”
“Few Survivors Have Been Paid as California Sterilization Reparation Program Winds Down”
“Anti-Trans Activists Are Trying to Scare Gender Care Providers Away”
“Anti-Abortion Centers Spent Over $600M in One Year. That’s the Tip of the Iceberg.”
“Planned Parenthood Pausing Emergency Fund for Abortion Access”
“Exclusive: National Abortion Federation’s New CEO Hopes to Be a ‘Stabilizing Force’”
“Upstream USA Promises to Transform Contraceptive Care. Experts Are Raising Red Flags.”
“Anti-Abortion and Fascist Violence Are One and the Same. Clinics Are Paying the Price.”
“Why Won’t the CDC Kick ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers Out of Its Directories?”
“A Birth Control Pill Could Be Available Over the Counter for the First Time”
“Meet the Group Fighting Abortion Misinformation, One Reddit Post at a Time”
“Social Media ‘Wellness’ Influencers Peddle Lies About Birth Control”
“Exclusive: How One Abortion Pill Service Collapsed Just After Launch”
“It’s No Surprise the AMA Is Leaving Abortion Providers Twisting in the Wind”
“Their Hospital Didn’t Offer Abortion Pills in the ER. These Doctors Changed That”
“‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Are Deceptive. Why Aren’t There More Alternatives?”
“‘A General State of Confusion’: How Abortion Misinformation Misleads Patients”
Cosmopolitan
“Inside the Secret Fleet of Abortion Vans Meeting Patients Near Ban States” (print feature)
Part of the National Headliner Award-Winning package “It’s Not Over”
The Nation
“What This Later-Abortion Story Tells Us About a Post-Roe Future” (print feature)
Co-published alongside a special episode of ACCESS and funded by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund
Elle Magazine
“Abortion Clinics Across the U.S. Are Closing. Advocates—and Protesters—Are Still Showing Up”
“Could an Abortion Ban Put Your Life in Danger?”
“Who Will Protect Abortion Providers?”
“There’s An Abortion Provider Shortage Across The U.S. Here’s How We Address It.”
Truthout
“This Year, the Reproductive Justice Movement Showed Us What It Means to Fight”
“Post ‘Roe,’ Advocates Fear for the Future of Contraceptive Self-Determination”
“For-Profit Abortion Telemedicine Start-Ups Are Proliferating in Wake of ‘Roe’”
“Abortion Bans Are a Direct Threat to Economic Security”
marie claire
“Standing Between Care and Violence”
Elemental
“So You Missed the HPV Vaccine. Now What?”
GEN
“How Abortion Providers Are Defying the Coronavirus to Continue Care”
vice
“Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Want the State to Know Everything About Your Abortion”
“How Primary Care Doctors Could Fix Abortion Access”
“15 Practical Questions About Getting An Abortion”
Part of the Deadline Club Award-winning Tonic Guide to Healthcare
“Abortion Providers Are America’s Best Doctors”
“How Women Deal With Unwanted Pregnancies When Abortion Isn’t Legal”
wired
“Telemedicine Could Help Fill the Gaps in America’s Abortion Care”
Fitness and Rehabilitative Medicine
well+good
scientific american
“Virtual Physical Therapy Could Help Fill Gaps in Treating All Too Real Pain”
glamour
“Enough With the Myths About Exercise During Pregnancy”
“A Gender Gap at the Gym is Keeping Women from Working Out”
elemental
“The Obscure Exercise Technique Changing Injury Rehab”
OneZero
“5G Could Finally Herald the Era of Wireless Surgery”
quartz
“People love gyms like CrossFit and PureBarre because they’ve made fancy fitness a status symbol”
refinery29
“The Dancer’s Hack to Preventing Workout Injuries”
culture
vice
“Homeless Are Flocking to America’s National Forests”
“Homelessness and Housing Shortages are a Big Problem in Luxury Resort Towns like Jackson Hole”
citylab
“The Case for Vertical Farming in Small-Town Wyoming”
the guardian
“Dissatisfied liberal Mormons find refuge in the Community of Christ”
the atlantic
“The Clone of My Hometown in China”
Dance
movement research performance journal
“It’s Not Noble for Artists to Suffer” (Issue 57, Winter 2023, print)
Dance Magazine
I have contributed to Dance Magazine since 2013. My writing there is best viewed in print, but below is a selection of my favorite pieces available online. You can find more here.
“Creating New Futures Is Reimagining the Relationship Between Artists and Presenters”
“Writing Dances, From Inside a Prison”
“What Will it Take to End Sexual Abuse in Dance Education?”
“How to Safely Resume Dancing After Recovering from COVID-19”
“What Would it Take to Change Ballet’s Aesthetic of Extreme Thinness?”
“Stop Asking When I’m Going to Get a ‘Real’ Job”
“Never Stop Dancing: A Decade-By-Decade Guide to Ensuring a Long Career”