Joanna Fuertes Knight

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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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
VICE Staff
VICE UK
3.1.16
Stuff

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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
2.25.16
Feeling The Feels

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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
5.1.15
The VICE Guide to Mental Health

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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
5.1.15
Election '15

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."
Joanna Fuertes Knight
VICE Staff
5.1.15
Stuff

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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
1.28.15
Stuff

My Night with London's Late Graffiti King

RIP, Robbo.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
8.1.14
Stuff

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.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
2.20.14
Travel

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...
Joanna Fuertes Knight
VICE Staff
2.13.14
FRINGES
Joanna Fuertes Knight
2.12.14
Food

Why Does Everyone Love Chocolate So Much?

I went on a voyage to find out.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
12.14.13
girl eats food

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."
Joanna Fuertes Knight
VICE Staff
12.13.13
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