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Rose Hackman

Rose Hackman is a features writer based in Detroit.

March 2024

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    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

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    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

  • Protesters march in Denver<br>A woman with a red hand painted on her face, which calls attention to the high rates of indigenous women who are murdered or missing, raises a sign in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter M-movement at a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Denver, Colorado, U.S., June 3, 2020. Picture taken June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    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 in ‘open retreat’?

    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

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    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

  • Emotional labor

    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

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    '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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • Vera Watson poses for a portrait at her home in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, December 14, 2016

    '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
  • People in the crowd at Hillary Clinton’s 2016 US presidential Election Night event watch results begin to come in on a big screen at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, New York.

    Glass ceiling watch: America turns its back on electing its first woman president

    So much of the election has focused on women, and today they headed to the polls. We documented what this historic day meant to them
  • Thelma Baxter, a retired educator, is proud to cast her ballot for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election

    How far we've come: older feminists on the battles they've faced – and won

  • Gloria Neuwirth, an attorney, is voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election

    Gloria Neuwirth, age 82, on voting for a female president – video

  • Robin Morgan, feminist activist and writer, is voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election

    Robin Morgan, age 75, on voting for a female president – video

  • Thelma Baxter, a retired educator, is proud to cast her ballot for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election

    Thelma Baxter, age 70, on voting for a female president – video

October 2016

  • A truck painted with the US flag on a roadside in New Hampshire, USA.

    How I got here
    I used to joke that I was allergic to America. Now, it's my home

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    I still profoundly dislike the unequal American system. Yet, despite this, I have learned to love the country’s unrealized project

September 2016

  • Brooklyn's Long Island University administration locked out<br>LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY - BROOKLYN CAMPUS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2016/09/07: Brooklyn's Long Island University administration locked out faculty ahead of fall classes, which begin Wednesday, as a negotiating tactic. The lockout blocks professors from teaching or accessing their health care benefits. Long Island University Brooklyn faculty members say they're being paid less than their colleagues at the Nassau County campus. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    LIU lockout: US professors and students seen as disposable commodities

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    'I didn’t choose to be straight, white and male': are modern men the suffering sex?

August 2016

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    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
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