O’Donovan

Best thing about my job: For three 10-week academic terms each year, I have a tiny force of journalists-in-training who can do Useful Projects for Democracy. Now accepting suggestions for winter and spring quarters.

Last project: What high school grads need to know about renting and their rights

... the specifics really tell the story here.

CNN Poll: Abortion's role as an electoral litmus test hasn't faded a year after Supreme Court decisi... Americans’ discontent with the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade remains as potent as it was a year ago, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a record-high share of t...

New polling: Americans’ discontent with the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade remains as potent as a year ago, with record-high share saying they’re likely to take a candidate’s position on abortion into consideration when voting.

This feels like the beginning of a very weird riddle, presented in agony aunt format. And I am into it.

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If you live in a state with a six-week ban, you should know about that. And if you’re a sexually active straight woman, maybe set up a weekly calendar reminder to test.

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I Thought My Campus Was Safe, Then There Was A Violent Anti-LGBTQ Attack "Hatred doesn’t happen in a vacuum: when left unchecked, it spreads like poison."

2 weeks after the targeted stabbing attack on a gender studies course at the University of Waterloo, student Nadia Khan wrote about it for Teen Vogue.

"How was it possible that in the same building where I first read texts like Gender Trouble, multiple people were violently attacked for the same?"

I am an unabashed fan of @washingtonpost.com's Post Grad project, and can confirm that intergenerational friendships are fantastic in all directions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/13/post-grad-intergenerational-friendship-young-adults/

Unpaid Labor Is Seen As a Given in Many Fields From student teaching to nursing to social work.

For Teen Vogue and my first piece supported by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, I reported on students organizing to end unpaid work requirements for social work, teaching, and other programs. They talked about student debt, how economic hardship shapes fields, and more.

So this one time at a journalism conference… I was talking to this person whom I’d just met. They told me about their job and where they worked. They asked me about mine. I told them…

Browsing old bookmarks and this post from Heather Bryant holds up: "Journalism has a class problem. We know this."

I’m mad I’m even posting about it.

I am trying to imagine a more perfect modern iteration of bread and circuses and cannot.

‎34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History: Encore: Tony Wolf - Suffraji... ‎Show 34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History, Ep Encore: Tony Wolf - Suffrajitsu-- The Female Bodyguards of the British Suffrage Movement - Jul 2, 2023

Tony Wolf, author of the graphic novel "Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons," talks to us about his novel and the marvelous and colorful history of these Suffrajitsu women. 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/34-circe-salon-make-matriarchy-great-again-disrupting/id1515852327?i=1000619013724

It’s July 3. Don’t forget to leave artisanal hipster sandwiches out tonight for Captain America!