In four states, you can’t get divorced if you’re pregnant, and they have now also banned abortion. 19thnews.org/2024/04/states…

well....it was not an april fools...it's happening ‼️ we're asking YOU to vote on a name for D.C.'s new worker-led news outlet ‼️ there's an option to leave open-ended feedback as well; we're all ears!
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I talked to some folks in the type 1 diabetes and broader disability communities about how they feel about calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. 19thnews.org/2024/04/sonia-…

Yesterday, President Biden addressed hundreds of care workers and their allies. I covered the speech and interviewed some folks in the audience about their thoughts. 19thnews.org/2024/04/biden-…

I reviewed a new doc about a band of autistic musicians for thinkingautism.bsky.social and pointed out that there are few few musicians of any neurology that have no supports. It's just that we usually call them managers, groupies, and band aids.
thinkingautismguide.com/2024/04/asdban…

Yesterday, President Biden addressed hundreds of care workers and their allies. I covered the speech and interviewed some folks in the audience about their thoughts. 19thnews.org/2024/04/biden-…

“The number of journalists that have been martyred in the past six months is so high that friends have shut their doors on my family because they didn’t want a journalist staying with them, believing us to be a target.” - Ibtisam Mahdi 972mag.com/gaza-death-war…

A survey of more than 500 autistic people found 80% preferred identity-first language vs 6% for person-first language. 74% opposed functioning labels vs 13% who supported them. Among people opposing functioning labels 86% supported stating the individual needs of each person 👇

🚨Update🚨 It's been a minute but we just updated our 19thnews abortion rights dashboard with news out of Arizona and Florida. 19thnews.org/2022/05/aborti…

New: The Florida and Arizona supreme courts' decisions over the past 10 days to uphold strict abortion bans have huge implications for access — and sent political shockwaves through key elections on the ballot this November
by Amanda Becker and me:
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See you soon, Spelman!

Folks if you are having trouble finding a job today in the US I’d like to hear from you. Especially if you have a degree, have been looking in your industry, sending resumes and nothing. This is for a piece I’m working on. #journorequest

I’ll be on MSNBC talking abortion with Jonathan Lemire at 5:30 am ET — tune in if you’re awake! 🌞🌞🌞

3:20 PM in DC. #Eclipse2024 Capital Weather Gang

Coverage about autism and ADHD is practically cyclical in terms of whipping up outrage over the same things that have existed for years if not nearing on decades.

One of my favorite things about being in a newsroom like The 19th is that I can make an IUD slack emoji and know we will use the hell out of it.

Majority of women in states with abortion bans believe access should be legal — and more than one in five reproductive-age adult women said they or someone they know has struggled to access abortion, a first-of-its-kind KFF survey shows 19thnews.org/2024/04/women-… via 19thnews

This Planned Parenthood will start offering sedation for IUD insertion 19thnews.org/2024/04/planne… via 19thnews