Q&A: Autonomy News wants to cover bodily autonomy as a human right

FROM THE ARTICLE

Congress and federal elections are not actually representative of views, and [the] electoral college and states are all gerrymandered. Another thing that’s worth taking time to digest are some guides from organizations like Physicians for Reproductive Health and Patient Forward and other groups that have put out guides for reporters.

After over a decade of being on the reproductive rights and justice beat, journalists Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas — buoyed by the success of other worker-owned publications like The 51st, Hell Gate, and 404 Media — decided to start their own worker-owned news outlet covering the forces shaping people’s ability to control their reproduction and gender expression.

Their hope is to nuance a media landscape where, as they write in their introduction post, “legacy outlets don’t prioritize having subject-matter experts cover this beat, or frame the topic as merely a political issue or a ‘debate.’”