DIY
Birthing at home, I didn’t have to play defense. I didn’t have to fight for the agency and permission to do it the way I wanted.
The author of Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood and 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failure of Gender Equality, Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist and National Magazine Award finalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and many others. She was a 2017 TED resident and is a 2018 grantee of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She produced the Vice documentary “Misconception,” and has appeared on the Today show, MSNBC, NPR and more. Allison was raised in Macon, Georgia and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Follow along @aliyarrow
SHE HAD THE SWORDFISH
When we met for lunch last year, the imperfect victim made clear she wasn’t just the punchline to a joke. A new documentary drives that point home.
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‘ARE YOU JEALOUS?’
The summer that she testified, I policed my own appearance and behavior to avoid any association with the infamous intern. And I was not alone.
JAGGED LITTLE SONGS
The closer the music got to the mainstream, the more it got watered down, and yet somehow the loose collective's core message broke through.
It Was a Bad Time
Look back and see what we had to say about women in power in the '90s. It was horrific. It hasn't stopped entirely, but it's better now, and you have—at least in part—Monica Lewinsky to thank.
Hush Little Baby
Word spread fast online about Alaska’s initiative to put pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms. Here’s why the tests are a good, and necessary, idea.
Broken Brooklyn
The story of how the repeated sexual abuse of one Hasidic girl by a prominent man shook up her community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and tore apart their world. An excerpt from Allison Yarrow’s The Devil of Williamsburg.
STARTING OVER
After a provider’s murder, women in Wichita, Kansas, have had to travel hundreds of miles for an abortion. Julie Burkhart intends to change that, reports Allison Yarrow.
Behind the Map
Four decades after Roe v. Wade, the U.S. has 724 remaining abortion clinics. From the dearth of clinics through the country’s center to the states requiring in-person counseling, see some of the findings from our abortion map.
A Day in the Life
An Oklahoma husband and wife have provided abortions for 40 years. A look at a day in their clinic.