Joanna Fuertes Knight
How the Philippines's Strict Laws Have Driven Women to Seek Backstreet Abortions
In our new documentary 'Year of Mercy,' Jo Fuertes Knight investigates how strict new reproductive health laws are having fatal consequences in the Philippines.
What a New Sex Ed Law in the Philippines Says About the Catholic Church's Global Fight Against Abortion
While filming Year of Mercy, our new documentary about the underground abortion trade in the Philippines, it became increasingly clear that Catholicism is at a crossroads.
When Is Britain Going to Stop Marginalizing Black and Minority Mental Health Patients?
The UK government has all but abandoned the vital issue of race in mental health treatment—a frightening reality when you consider that the number of people from minority groups being admitted for crisis care vastly outweigh any other.
When Is Britain Going to Stop Marginalizing Black and Minority Mental Health Patients?
The UK government has all but abandoned the vital issue of race in mental health treatment—a frightening reality when you consider that the number of people from minority groups being admitted for crisis care vastly outweigh any other.
Why Is the British Government Taxing Periods?
We talk to Englishwomen about the "tampon tax," which classifies all women's sanitary products as "non-essential luxury items."
Real Sex Education Means Teaching Kids the Power of 'No'
As someone whose entire sex education was a 280-pound nun denouncing abortion, I'm on board with the push in the UK for sex ed being part of the curriculum from elementary school onward.
Atlanta's Strippers Helped Me Get to the Bottom of the Twerk Debate
They don't seem to have read any of the keyboard smashing op-eds.
Atlanta: Strip City
With unique access to three of the city's most notorious strip clubs, their best-known dancers, management, and loyal customers, Atlanta: Strip City explores what it's really like to get naked and dance for money in the strip club capital of the...
Getting High on Chocolate
Anti-chef Jo Fuertes-Knight explores the growing trend of people using raw chocolate to "align the heart chakra" and go on an "inwards journey."