Emma Akpan
@emmaakpan.bsky.social
Religion and reproductive justice writer, arts and culture writer, bibliophile.
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I loved talking to Lindsay Adams for this piece. If you are in DC, check her out at the Irene and Richard Frary gallery at the John Hopkins Bloomberg Center.
In “Ceremony,” her first institutional show, D.C. native Lindsay Adams explores the history of Black migration in the United States through ambitious, unrestrained abstract paintings.
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Lindsay Adams is making art about Black migration and her D.C. roots
The painter’s first institutional show runs at the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery through March 2026.
51st.news
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I loved talking to Lindsay Adams for this piece. If you are in DC, check her out at the Irene and Richard Frary gallery at the John Hopkins Bloomberg Center.
#journorequest I am looking to speak to people traveling for an abortion and made plans to visit museums or monuments or try a new restaurant. For example, if you traveled to DC and planned to visit the National Museum for African American History and Culture. Anonymous is ok! DM if interested.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#journorequest I am looking to speak to people traveling for an abortion and made plans to visit museums or monuments or try a new restaurant. For example, if you traveled to DC and planned to visit the National Museum for African American History and Culture. Anonymous is ok! DM if interested.
The year of my prolonged unemployment is also the year my IUD expires. While I wondered what I would do about it, I was curious about the other 300,000 Black women who left the labor force and how they were handling their reproductive health care, so I interviewed five women. Their stories are here.
More than 300,000 Black women left the labor force in early 2025. When Emma Akpan’s contract ended, she faced the typical unemployment stressors—rent, groceries, utility bills. But she also found it hard to access basic reproductive health care. Akpan wasn’t alone.
Read her latest for more
Read her latest for more
How Unemployment Shaped My Reproductive Health Care—Analysis
Black women left the labor force in droves in 2025. Some are now struggling to afford period products, contraceptives, and OB-GYN care.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The year of my prolonged unemployment is also the year my IUD expires. While I wondered what I would do about it, I was curious about the other 300,000 Black women who left the labor force and how they were handling their reproductive health care, so I interviewed five women. Their stories are here.