Rose Hackman is a features writer based in Detroit.
March 2024
I was 14. He was 22. If it wasn’t grooming, what is?
The world has normalized these stories of abuse. After four years, I freed myself – but how much had I already been shaped?
March 2023
No reward for leaning in: the workplace toll of emotional labor
Women are expected to play an impossible game: show compassion and submission while being assertive and confident
September 2021
Femicides in the US: the silent epidemic few dare to name
The death of Gabby Petito draws attention to a form of widespread gendered violence in the US that has long been hiding in plain sight
June 2018
Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex?
An article purporting to explain a ‘decline’ in marriage has had a degree of viral popularity but does its argument stack up?
February 2018
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses
Bay View is for many an idyllic community – but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property
October 2017
The emotional burden of living in fear: a call for women's stories
The threat of sexual aggression forces women to spend their lives on guard. Rose Hackman is researching emotional labor, and she wants to hear your story
September 2017
'You will be sexually harassed': just one of the perils of working for tips
Working for $2.13 an hour has become a normal part of American culture, but tipped workers are twice as likely to be living in poverty, and are mostly female
June 2017
Inequality and opportunity in America
A billion-dollar industry, a racist legacy: being black and growing pot in America
What does it take to succeed as a young black entrepreneur in a sector largely dominated by white men seen as daring trailblazers?
April 2017
When therapists also need therapists: 'Suffering is not unique to one group'
Four practitioners open up about why they seek professional help: to maintain boundaries with clients, process their own life events and decide when to retire
February 2017
How to dump someone on Valentine's Day – or any day – without being a jerk
Some analysts say 14 February is a peak moment for breakups – so I asked people about how they would like to be broken up with, for a change
January 2017
'Here until they take me out': DC tenants use the law to fight gentrification
Right-to-buy program helps tenants stay put or receive higher payouts when building owners want to sell, undermining idea gentrification is ‘natural’ process
How far we've come: older feminists on the battles they've faced – and won
Gloria Neuwirth, age 82, on voting for a female president – video
Robin Morgan, age 75, on voting for a female president – video
Thelma Baxter, age 70, on voting for a female president – video
October 2016
How I got here
I used to joke that I was allergic to America. Now, it's my home
Rose Hackman
I still profoundly dislike the unequal American system. Yet, despite this, I have learned to love the country’s unrealized project
September 2016
LIU lockout: US professors and students seen as disposable commodities
'I didn’t choose to be straight, white and male': are modern men the suffering sex?
August 2016
The last affordable neighborhoods in Manhattan: 'The air is fresher up here'
Long an ignored section of New York City by outsiders, the two neighborhoods that make up northern Manhattan are attracting attention – not all of it welcome