Katie Tandy

Katie Tandy

Katie Tandy is a journalist, essayist, and editor writing on civil rights, reproductive justice, and arts+culture that takes aim at systems of power. She devours paperbacks, and spaghetti and lives in

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Education

The kids having sex aren’t alright: Abortion bans threaten sexuality development

As America tumbles headlong into an election season accompanied by the most restrictive, neo-Puritanical abortion landscape we’ve seen in 50 years, it’s difficult to imagine the ubiquity and normalcy that once accompanied abortions. Supported even by the Catholic church, abortions weren’t outlawed until the mid 1880s.  This

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5 Min
By: Katie Tandy
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Arizona Supreme Court’s abortion ruling plunges state back to 1864

Arizona just joined one of the narrowest and strictest abortion regimes in the country. In a 4-2 decision led by Justice John R. Lopez, Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes/Hazelrigg has reinstated an 1864 zombie law banning nearly all abortions—a law so outdated it was created before scientists understood

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5 Min
By: Katie Tandy

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