Dictators Are Abusers - With A Larger Platform
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Dictators Are Abusers - With A Larger Platform

Every time the ring is kissed, for a few brief moments the abuser (or dictator) and their predatory entitlement bask in the afterglow, orchestral music perhaps swelling in their head – and their head alone – as their prey tiptoes across invisible shards of glass.

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Loaded Language in Media Guide*
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Loaded Language in Media Guide*

Holding power to account begins with examining the very language we use as journalists, and understanding that social evolution is simply the changing of the words we use to tell ourselves…about ourselves.

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An Open Letter To Non-Voters
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

An Open Letter To Non-Voters

Not voting is less passive resistance, more passive aggressive, and opting out of the democratic process risks losing it altogether.

Democracy is fragile and doesn’t just die in darkness. It so easily dies in the light of day.

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Glorified Bottom Feeders
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Glorified Bottom Feeders

The sad fact that Naomi Osaka, not the press, stepped back from the French Open, has me thinking about my previous career, and the glaring overlap between sports and arts writers.

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Surging in Silence
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Surging in Silence

My Pulitzer Center-backed series examining the effects of the pandemic on domestic and sexual violence in Nashville and Memphis.

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Home Invasion
Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Home Invasion

Large-scale violence is disorienting, especially when it involves political figures. So let’s transpose the attack on the US Capitol into a more personal scale.

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Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

The Alternate Reality That Fuels White America’s Fear

By not admitting to a collective racism, we white people are fueling a deadly "alternate reality." One in which black and brown people have systemically terrorized white people and must somehow prove we are safe when they're jogging or existing near us, not the other way around.

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Natasha Senjanovic Natasha Senjanovic

Unprepared for COVID-19: Did Memphis, state missteps early on cost us?

My coverage of the state’s slow response to the C-19 threat, from a meatier article written with Marc Perrusquia (Institute for Public Service Reporting), who digs into what consequences state and county delays could have on one of the most vulnerable regions in Tennessee.

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