Women are turning to TikTok to share about their abortions or seek information on how to obtain one amid an increasingly uncertain landscape for women's reproductive health care in America. nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/…

Ethnic tensions, nationalist rhetoric & concerns about the influence of AI form a tense background for this spring's election in India.

Shuja Nawaz, Safiya Ghori-Ahmad, Paul Staniland & emilyschmall discuss what to expect.

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Listen to the difference between Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s natural voice and her speech voice. Britt delivered the Republican Party response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address last night.

A very American story. nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/…

Via Telegram, reportedly the last photo of Navalny alive.

More than a 100 OCIs in UK, US etc cancelled by GOI for criticism of the government. #Mustread

Unlike death, where the parting is final, psychologists call sibling estrangement an ambiguous loss, writes Emily Schmall. “This is how it felt for me — a pain that dulled with time but never quite healed.” nyti.ms/3vSZvAB

Fairly innocuous sounding, and probably indecipherable to folks who don't follow Indian politics closely, but this is India's government choking off the funding to one of India's premier think-tanks. The equivalent of halting enough cashflow to sink CSIS or Brookings.

Step right up, come see the rat hole nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/…

Percentage of women who believe wife-beating is justified if she disrespects her in-laws.

(IDHS 2019-21)

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Percentage of men who agree with at least one justification of wife beating.

India National Family Health Survey 2019-21,

Data here dhsprogram.com/publications/p…

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A look at the hurdles for women in journalism in India, where they face family resistance, harassment, and increasingly, legal threats under the Modi government (emilyschmall / New York Times)

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PM Modi's comments in rare FT interview mirror a sentiment you often hear in Delhi: we're in an era when rising India holds the cards, not the US.

Florida Republicans just approved a bill to roll back child labor law protections.

The bill would make it legal for 16 year-olds to work overnight shifts seven days a week. 'These are youth workers,' the bill's sponsor said. 'They are not children.' orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-l…

My latest

I got absolutely sucked into this 'written podcast' series by emilyschmall, Amanda Taub, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, Andrea Bruce and Saumya Khandelwal that examines the barriers keeping two Indian women out of the workplace, and I promise you will be, too.
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A ‘Written Podcast’ Follows Women in India nytimes.com/2023/12/08/ins…

“It was like an island of misfit toys,” said St. Sukie de la Croix, who photographed Chicago’s gay nightlife in the 1990s. “Everybody who didn’t fit into other gay bars went to Berlin because everybody went to Berlin.” nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/…

Arti found a place on the starting line. She focused her mind on her goal: 1,600 meters in less than 7 minutes. Read about Arti's race to win some autonomy within the confines of India's patriarchal system in the final chapter of India's Daughters shorturl.at/ahsy3

M.A. Columbia Journ alum emilyschmall (MA Business '09) is a member of the The New York Times team that reported the The Interpreter series 'India's Daughters' that examines how, for two young women, chasing opportunity in India has been a fight for their lives. nytimes.com/2023/11/18/wor…