journalism — The View from Somewhere

**What Keeps Us Safe? We, the people, do (MLK50, 2023)** **Photo by Andrea Morales.**

Lingering long after a storm, mold and mental health issues (Environmental Health News and Scalawag Magazine, 2019) — **Lingering long after a storm, mold and mental health issues** **(Environmental Health News and Scalawag Magazine, 2019)**

Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want (Futurism, 2018) — **Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want** **(Futurism, 2018)**

**Welcome to Georgia, the epicenter of the private probation racket (The Outline, 2017)**

**There are times journalists should become the story (Columbia Journalism Review, 2017)**

A small town where prisons are a big business (Marketplace, 2017)Photo by Ali Guillory — **A small town where prisons are a big business (Marketplace, 2017)**
Photo by Ali Guillory

From joining a gang at 12 to serving a life sentence (WYSO, 2016)Produced as part of the series Women's Voices from Dayton Correctional Institution, a collaboration with incarcerated women in Dayton, Ohio — **From joining a gang at 12 to serving a life sentence** **(WYSO, 2016)**
Produced as part of the series Women's Voices from Dayton Correctional Institution, a collaboration with incarcerated women in Dayton, Ohio

The cost of criminalizing disability (Marketplace, 2016)Art by Micah Bazant, micahbazant.com — **The cost of criminalizing disability (Marketplace, 2016)**
Art by Micah Bazant, micahbazant.com

**Just how do national days get on the calendar? (Marketplace, 2015)**

Delay and denial in pines (WBEZ, 2013)A three-part investigative radio series about a small town with contaminated water, and a slow EPA response — **Delay and denial in pines (WBEZ, 2013)**
A three-part investigative radio series about a small town with contaminated water, and a slow EPA response

Chain Reaction: Alternatives to calling police (Project NIA, 2013)A collaborative multimedia project documenting youth encounters with police in ChicagoArt by Billy Dee — **Chain Reaction: Alternatives to calling police (Project NIA, 2013)**
A collaborative multimedia project documenting youth encounters with police in Chicago
Art by Billy Dee

**Confronting Privilege and Power in Storytelling (Transom Manifesto, 2020)**

Poor southerners are joining the globe’s climate migrants (Scalawag Magazine and Environmental Health News, 2019) — **Poor southerners are joining the globe’s climate migrants** **(Scalawag Magazine and Environmental Health News, 2019)**

**Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people** **(Columbia Journalism Review, 2019)**

Human resilience and ecological resistance in the tear gas capital of the world. In and around Bethlehem, Palestinians are building gardens and doing permaculture in an environment threatened by chemical attacks. (Environmental Health News, 2019) Ph… — **Human resilience and ecological resistance in the tear gas capital of the world**. In and around Bethlehem, Palestinians are building gardens and doing permaculture in an environment threatened by chemical attacks. (Environmental Health News, 2019) Photo credit: Will Duggan/Eyewitness Palestine

How trans journalists are challenging—and changing—journalism (Nieman Reports, 2019) — **How trans journalists are challenging—and changing—journalism** **(Nieman Reports, 2019)**

Homes and Gardens: The best thing to ever happen to a prison (Scalawag Magazine, 2018) — **Homes and Gardens: The best thing to ever happen to a prison** **(Scalawag Magazine, 2018)**

[quote above from Bunk by Kevin Young]To rebuild trust, we need to change journalistic process (Columbia Journalism Review, 2018) — [quote above from *Bunk* by Kevin Young]
**To rebuild trust, we need to change journalistic process (Columbia Journalism Review, 2018)**

**Imagining another world in post-Irma Florida (Scalawag Magazine, 2017)**

**Trans and Intersex Witches Are Casting Out the Gender Binary (them.us, 2017)**

What if balance was about process, rather than outcome? (Art21 Magazine, 2017)

**Visible and invisible wars on Memorial Day (Medium, 2017)**

**Objectivity is dead, and I'm okay with it (Medium, 2017)**

**In southern Ohio, a nuclear town faces a hazy future (WYSO, 2015)**

This Awful Side of Me (Nancy Podcast, 2017) — **This Awful Side of Me** **(Nancy Podcast, 2017)**

Natural transition: Can herbal hormone therapy help the transgender community? (The Outline, 2017) — **Natural transition: Can herbal hormone therapy help the transgender community?** **(The Outline, 2017)**

**How transgender people in the South are helping each other get health care (Scalawag, 2018)**

How to use a bathroom (The Outline, 2017)

**Biased truth: Nothing is neutral (Quill Magazine, 2017)**

**In Detroit, a risky alternative to mortgages (Marketplace, 2016)**

**Air Force reservists seek recognition of exposure to Agent Orange (NPR, 2015)**

**Brewers have been all bottled up, but now they're canning it (NPR, 2014)**

Why is that one lake in Dayton so blue? (WYSO, 2014)This piece was part of an ongoing series I founded called WYSO Curious, where reporters answer listener questions. It uses the Hearken model. — **Why is that one lake in Dayton so blue? (WYSO, 2014)**
This piece was part of an ongoing series I founded called WYSO Curious, where reporters answer listener questions. It uses the Hearken model.

**Hunting for plastic pollution in the Great Lakes (Michigan Radio's Environment Report, 2013)**

**Love the ice cream truck? Thank inventor Fred Jones (Marketplace, 2014)**

**A week or two of being trans at work (Medium, 2016)**

**A Matter of Seconds: a documentary about Black Lives Matter and the death of John Crawford III (WYSO, 2015)**

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other publications

“Recall, response and rememory,” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, for special issue Call and Response: Experiments in Joy edited by Gabrielle Civil (2015, issues 41.1-41.2)

“Bearded Woman, Female Christ: Gendered Transformations in the Legends and Cult of Saint Wilgefortis,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2014, Vol. 30, Number 1)

“Lena Baker and Inez Garcia,” No Selves to Defend, an anthology about criminalizing women of color for self-defense, edited by Mariame Kaba (Project NIA, 2014, self-published/online)

“Restorative Justice Is Not Enough: School-Based Interventions in the Carceral State” with Jane Hereth, Mariame Kaba and Erica Meiners, in Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline, edited by Sofia Bahena, North Cooc, Rachel Currie-Rubin, Paul Kuttner and Monica Ng (2012, Harvard Educational Review)

“Dirt Story” in Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (2012, AK Press)

Miklat Miklat, a transformative justice zine, coauthored with Micah Bazant (first displayed at the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 2011, self-published/online, excerpted in Streetopia, 2015)

“Untitled” in Unsquared; Ann Arbor Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems (2006, 826Michigan) under the name Sailor Raven

“Winter (Transition)” in From the Inside Out; Radical Gender Transformation, FtM and Beyond (2004, Manic D Press) under the name Sailor Raven

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