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Elizabeth Flock

Chicago, Taos
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Covers:  gender, justice, love, sexuality, india, race, politics, religion
Doesn't Cover: cats
Reporting on justice issues around the world | Latest book THE FURIES ❤️‍🔥 | Host of the podcast Blind Plea | Stories in many places

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Elizabeth Flock’s Biography

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I am an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker with a focus on gender and justice. My features and investigations have appeared on the PBS NewsHour, in The New York Times, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, and many other publications. My first book, THE HEART IS A SHIFTING SEA, a study of contemporary love and marriage in Mumbai, won a Nautilus Book Award in 2018.

Elizabeth Flock’s Journalist Portfolio

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A Female Rapper Busts Onto Senegal's Male-Run Hip Hop Scene

A Female Rapper Busts Onto Senegal's Male-Run Hip Hop Scene

People ask where all the female rappers have gone. Senegal's Toussa Senerap has a compelling answer: right wh…

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A Close Call, and Then a Curtain Call

A Close Call, and Then a Curtain Call

How a decades-old play helped save a hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York.

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Remembering the 'Forgotten City,' Greenpoint Terminal Market

Remembering the 'Forgotten City,' Greenpoint Terminal Market

A look inside the Greenpoint Terminal Market, a complex of old industrial buildings along the East River in N…

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Veterans Dying of Overmedication By the VA

Veterans Dying of Overmedication By the VA

Family members, veterans and physicians says dangerous drug cocktails are being administered to injured soldi…

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Some Child Sex Trafficking Victims 'Rescued' by FBI End up in Jail

Some Child Sex Trafficking Victims 'Rescued' by FBI End up in Jail

When the FBI did a nationwide sweep to fight child prostitution, the agency boasted it had rescued 105 sexual…

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Gay Community Won Battles on Marriage, But May Be Losing the War on HIV/AIDS

Gay Community Won Battles on Marriage, But May Be Losing the War on HIV/AIDS

HRC, the largest LGBT group in the country, had won big on gay marriage. But it may be quietly losing another…

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Articles

The Migrants in the Ancient Forest

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By Elizabeth Flock
| The New Yorker Verified
Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish border, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home, in Mogadishu, he liked to watch Manchester City football and TikTok videos. One day, members of the terror group Al Shabab came to his house to recruit his father in their fight to overthrow the government.
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This CEO Helped Lead Antiabortion Clinics. Now She’s Exposing Them. Original

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By Elizabeth Flock
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Illustration by Lia Kantrowitz On Valentine’s Day 2023, I found myself inside a crisis pregnancy center called Obria Medical Clinics in a Los Angeles suburb, telling the nurse I was pregnant and wanted more information. For decades, I had heard horror stories about clinics like this one, which were known for their religious agenda of convincing—even coercing—pregnant, often low-income, women not to have abortions.
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Inside the Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria

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By Elizabeth Flock
| Noema Magazine Verified
Credits Elizabeth Flock is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who reports on gender and justice issues and hosts the podcast “Blind Plea.” This passage is an adapted excerpt of “The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice,” a book published by HarperCollins. Flock’s reporting in Syria was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Justice goes by many names.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Only my grandfather's. Quite the inky experience.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

@ me on Twitter.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Digital investigative tools such as archival and reverse image search and text matching softwares.