Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, November 2 at 11 for Visiting Journalist Anna Sussman’s talk, “Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty”.
Sussman is a freelance reporter whose work on gender, the workplace and reproduction has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the BBC, the New York Review of Books and The Guardian. For The Fuller Project for International Reporting (2020), she covered COVID, reproduction, economics, and access to reproductive health care. Previous positions included Art Market Editor at Artsy.net (2017-18), Economics Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal (2015-16), and Correspondent for Thomson Reuters, Commodities and Energy Team (2013-14). She holds an MA in Business and Economics Reporting from New York University, an MS in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, and a BA in comparative literature from Brown University.
Sussman’s current project is a forthcoming book for Dey Street Books exploring why it is that the prospect of having a child seems so out of reach to so many, and the endeavor of raising a child so fraught. She is examining why family life feels out of reach not just to herself and her many female friends unsuccessfully trawling dating apps, but to millions of American couples who can’t quite figure out how to square a circle that includes two full-time workers, stagnant wages and rising costs of living, and a tiny human being who needs full-time care.
Selected work:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/capitalism-children.html
https://www.elle.com/life-love/a32335002/telemedicine-abortion-coronavirus/Info