Henry Carnell

Eugene, Oregon

Fellow at The Washington Blade

Digital Fellow at Mother Jones

Journalist and Fact-Checker at Freelance

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Articles

How queer Baltimore tattoo artists are building strong community spaces - News Is Out

1 day ago | newsisout.com | Henry Carnell

Fruit Camp, a tattoo and art studio in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore, opened with a bang in February of 2020. “We had a big opening party. It was really fun. Everybody came,” says Geo Mccandlish, one of the co-founders. “It was the last rager I went to,” they said. The pandemic shut down their shop—alongside the world—for months, but the shop survived. “We just put our stimulus checks into keeping the rent paid,” says Emi Lynn Holler, the other co-founder.
Government cancels disinformation grants in disinformation-filled statement

3 days ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell

Lisa Fazio expected her National Science Foundation grant to be cancelled. The associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University had watched, with apprehension, the GOP targeting disinformation in a series of legislative attacks. She only grew more certain when, on April 18, the National Science Foundation (NSF) put out a statement on how grants would henceforth be evaluated for funding.
Montana Republicans Say No to Prosecuting Parents for Trans Care

2 weeks ago | them.us | Henry Carnell |Sarah Szilagy

This post originally appeared on Mother Jones. Five days after President Donald Trump declared “gender ideology” to be “one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse,” Montana’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives killed a bill that would have enshrined much the same idea into state law by criminalizing parents and medical providers.
Montana Republicans say no to prosecuting parents for trans care

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell |Sarah Szilagy

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Five days after President Donald Trump declared “gender ideology” to be “one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse,” Montana’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives killed a bill that would have enshrined much the same idea into state law by criminalizing parents and medical providers.
While fallen soldiers returned home, Trump hit the golf course

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell

President Trump’s absence at the dignified transfer of four US servicemen who died during a training exercise in Lithuania is being noticed. While thousands gathered in Lithuania—including the Lithuanian president—to send the soldiers off, our commander in chief was busy (as he has been for over a quarter of his second presidency) playing in his Saudi-backed golf tournament at Mar-a-Lago.
5 things a trans scientist wants you to know about AI

3 weeks ago | newsisout.com | Henry Carnell

Transgender people were no strangers to the heyday of the internet experimenting with AI text to image generation during primarily 2022 and 2023. Trans writers shared about the potential promise of the technology for producing affirming portraits. The same models, however, researchers found also produced stereotypes and over-sexualization of their depictions of transgender people. Since then, AI use has exploded—as have examples of how it fails the LGBTQ+ community.
“The Opposite of Efficiency”: DOGE’s Credit Card Crackdown Is Making Research Slower, Harder, and Worse

4 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell

An employee at one government-run national research lab spent half a day this week cancelling orders for equipment—time that, as a technician, he could have spent running experiments. That worker is one of many whose “PCard,” or purchasing card, will be revoked at the end of the month—part of an internal order by the Department of Energy to “significantly” reduce the number of such cardholders across the system.
Trump can't really stop Biden's climate legacy

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen |Henry Carnell

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Since taking office, President Donald Trump hasn't wasted time unravelingJoe Biden's climate legacy. He's signed executive orders directing his administration to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, end offshore wind leases, root out environmental justice programs, and declared a " National Energy Emergency " to encourage more fossil fuel production.
Department of Veterans Affairs ends trans and intersex care directives

1 month ago | lgbtqnation.com | Henry Carnell

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. On Monday, citing Donald Trump’s “Defending Women” executive order, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it would “phase out treatment for gender dysphoria” by discontinuing hormone replacement therapy for patients not already in treatment.
Department of Veterans Affairs Ends Transgender and Intersex Care Directives

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell

On Monday, citing Donald Trump’s “Defending Women” executive order, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it would “phase out treatment for gender dysphoria” by discontinuing hormone replacement therapy for patients not already in treatment. The agency provides health care and benefits for about nine million veterans, tens of thousands of whom—by the VA’s estimate—identify as trans.