Help us raise $20,000!

At Prism, we’re proud to go where justice requires; now, we need your help to grow where justice requires by setting up our truth-seeking & independent journalism to continue growing. When you invest in Prism with a donation during this end-of-year season, you’re helping us grow our grassroots, community-based journalism and plant the seeds for the media landscape we want to inhabit.

With the help of Newsmatch, by donating today you can triple your impact!

Donate today, triple your impact!
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Race
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education
  • Health
  • Movement for Palestine
  • The March Continues
  • Abortion Rights Post-Roe
  • COVID-19
  • Disability Justice
  • Right to Write Project
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

About

  • Mission & Vision
  • Who We Are
  • Ways to Give
    • Membership
    • Our Supporters
  • Jobs
  • Call for Pitches
  • Code of Ethics
  • Distribution Guidelines
  • Community Guidelines
  • Events
  • Reflective Journalism Project
  • Right to Write Project

Focus

  • Race
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education

Sections

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Explainers
  • Culture
Skip to content
  • Movement for Palestine
  • The March Continues
  • Abortion Rights Post-Roe
  • COVID-19
  • Disability Justice
  • Right to Write Project
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Prism logo

Prism

Justice Requires the Full Story

  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Race
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education
  • Health
Tina Vasquez headshot

Author Archives: Tina Vásquez

Tina Vásquez is the editor-at-large at Prism. She covers gender justice, workers' rights, and immigration. Follow her on Twitter @TheTinaVasquez.

Posted inGender & LGBTQIA+

‘How long can Kentucky survive?’

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez June 21st, 2023June 21st, 2023
Prism's One year post-Roe series features 13 sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates.
Posted inOpinion

Hope and heartbreak in the post-Roe hellscape

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez June 21st, 2023November 27th, 2023
color photograph of three Latinx women stand with their backs to the camera in the foreground. They are outside at night, and there are dozens of migrants in the midground behind the border patrol vehicle. In the background is a hill with the border wall along its ridge
Posted inImmigration

CBP subjects migrants to grave reproductive injustices

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez June 6th, 2023June 6th, 2023
color photograph of an outdoor protest. two people hold a large cardboard sign with white handwritten text that reads "Free them all"
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

New report complicates decarceration wins

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez May 24th, 2023May 24th, 2023
color photograph of a Black person's hand holding a smartphone screen close to the camera. On the phone screen is a pop-up reading "Time Slot Full" in larger text and "The selected time slot does not have enough availability to support 1 individual(s)." above an "OK" button. In the background behind the pop-up is personal location information in Spanish
Posted inImmigration

Biden is ‘modernizing’ immigration with new tech. None of it works

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez May 10th, 2023May 10th, 2023
Records show ICE and LaSalle Corrections covered up critical details about a 2018 in-custody death
Posted inImmigration

Records show ICE and LaSalle Corrections covered up critical details about a 2018 in-custody death

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez April 20th, 2023April 20th, 2023
digital collage of a farmworker with his back to the camera. he wears a straw hat and stares into the distance, where black-and-white rows of farmland stretch vertically like cell bars
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Human trafficking or a guest worker program? H-2A’s systemic issues result in catastrophic violations

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez April 14th, 2023April 14th, 2023
color movie still of a Latinx woman sitting cross-legged on the floor of a house. she is holding her young daughter in her lap. the color grading is dark yellow
Posted inGender & LGBTQIA+

What happens when a reproductive justice organization makes a feature film? Culture shift.

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez March 14th, 2023March 14th, 2023
color photograph of an outdoor protest at night. close-up shot of someone holding a cardboard sign that says "abolish police" in black letters with pink outline around "abolish" and blue outline around "police"
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Journalists play a crucial role in the fight for prison and police abolition

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez March 2nd, 2023June 5th, 2023
color photograph of two Black undocumented immigrants. one, wearing a grey sweatshirt and a baseball cap over short hair, holds the head of the other comfortingly and kisses their forehead
Posted inImmigration

DeSantis spends February targeting immigrants, leading up to likely presidential run

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez February 28th, 2023February 28th, 2023

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 17 Older posts

Categories

  • Race (769)
  • Politics & Democracy (419)
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+ (409)
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition (361)
  • Economy & Workers' Rights (290)

Tags

  • News (881)
  • Opinion (257)
  • COVID-19 (220)
  • Feature (197)
  • racial justice (165)

Year

  • 2023 (354)
  • 2022 (423)
  • 2021 (387)
  • 2020 (489)
  • 2019 (101)

Our Latest Stories

  • Activists end 5-day hunger strike as calls for ceasefire in Gaza continue December 7th, 2023
  • University of Pennsylvania-led medical experiments harmed incarcerated women December 7th, 2023
  • Never eat the candy on your pillow: Friend or foe? December 6th, 2023
  • OB-GYNs file brief debunking Florida attorney general’s anti-abortion rhetoric December 6th, 2023
  • UAW is the largest US union to call for a ceasefire in Gaza December 5th, 2023
  • SAG-AFTRA’s new contract falls short on protections from Artificial Intelligence December 5th, 2023

Sign up for our newsletter to get updates that make you think and act—directly to your inbox.

By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time.

Processing…
Success! You're on the list.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.

Categories

  • Race (769)
  • Politics & Democracy (419)
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+ (409)
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition (361)
  • Economy & Workers' Rights (290)

Tags

  • News (881)
  • Opinion (257)
  • COVID-19 (220)
  • Feature (197)
  • racial justice (165)

Year

  • 2023 (354)
  • 2022 (423)
  • 2021 (387)
  • 2020 (489)
  • 2019 (101)
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Sections

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Explainers
  • Culture

Focus

  • Race
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education

About

  • Mission & Vision
  • Who We Are
  • Ways to Give
    • Membership
    • Our Supporters
  • Jobs
  • Call for Pitches
  • Code of Ethics
  • Distribution Guidelines
  • Community Guidelines
  • Events
  • Reflective Journalism Project
  • Right to Write Project
© 2023 Prism. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy