“What Have You Been Doing?” and the Brutal Adultification of Black Girls

The devastating impacts on reproductive rights and individual lives after the fall of Roe continue apace. The latest high-profile account to detail the gut-wrenching effects arrived in Time this week. The story—”She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade”—centers on Ashley, a 13-year-old girl from Mississippi who in […]