Tag Archives: Journalism
Mac McClelland and ethical story-telling
TweetLast week, I responded to some of the, I believe, unwarranted criticism Mac McClelland has received for her recent essay on PTSD. Over the weekend, Edwidge Danticat wrote a piece charging that the Haitian rape survivor called K* or Sybille in McClelland’s writing did not consent to having her story told. She says that after [...]
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Fear of the single story: Backlash to Mac McClelland’s PTSD piece
TweetMac McClelland’s recent essay on her battle with PTSD and how violent sex helped her heal was one of the bravest pieces of writing I’ve read in a while. And I’ve gotta agree with Jill that much of the backlash of criticism she’s received “illustrates pretty well why too many women who experience trauma don’t [...]
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The Feministing Five: Mac McClelland
TweetMac McClelland is the human rights reporter for Mother Jones magazine and the author of the book For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War. Mac has reported from all over the world, most recently from Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico – she is currently reporting on the [...]
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One easy way to support investigative journalism
TweetDonate to the Investigative Fund. If you know anything about journalism, you know that investigative journalism is expensive. In an era of shrinking newsrooms and doing less with more, journalism that takes months of research is often the first thing to go. Groups like the Investigative Fund keep that kind of reporting alive by supporting [...]
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The New York Post somehow surpasses rock bottom