Most recently published pieces
- The City’s Free Condom Program Is Currently Out of Condoms
Hellgate • September 2024 - Scurrying Around Town With the Neuroscientists Studying NYC Rats: “What’s the day in the life of an urban rat? We don’t really know.”
Hellgate • August 2024 - Florida’s Trans Activists Aren’t Going Down Without a Fight: Andrea Montanez went head-to-head with Pablo Escobar. Now, she’s taking on Ron DeSantis.
New York Magazine / The Cut • June 2024
Selected feature stories
- ‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions: Exclusive Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’
The Guardian • April 2024 - When Force-Feeding Is Torture: After years of litigation, Type Investigations and The Nation have acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment that may amount to torture.
The Nation • March 2023 - Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars
NBC News • December 2021
Selected reporting
- Cristina Iglesias, Who Helped Secure Gender-Affirming Surgery in Prisons, Is Finally Living For Herself
Teen Vogue • April 2024 - Four controversial doctors helping Republicans attack trans healthcare: A wave of new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors relies on a number of doctors with ties to rightwing groups and little experience treating transgender patients.
The Guardian • June 2023 - Building Jewish Life Behind Bars: A new organization called Matir Asurim provides Jewish resources in prisons and resists the policing of Jewish identity
Jewish Currents • February 2023
Selected essays, commentary, reviews & interviews
- A Historic Jewish Wedding in a New Jersey Women’s Prison: Two brides tie the knot with human volunteers acting as chuppah poles.
Jewish Currents • June 2022 - Indefinite silence: How SAMs imperil press freedom.
Columbia Journalism Review • January 2021 - Trust in Instinct: Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse.
The New Inquiry • May 2017
Book chapters
- We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier and Michael Kazin. My chapter: “Who Gets to Be Safe? Prisons, Police, and Terror.”
The New Press • January 2020
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Aviva Stahl 