Jade Jasmine Hurley (she/her) is an essayist, literary journalist, and organizer who works to further reproductive justice, transnational feminism, and worker power.
She considers herself a pen behind the movement for liberation, and is a leading voice in the worker’s fight for reproductive justice.
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Teen Vogue
May 2024
“These influencers are pushing a message to “be clean, be optimized and be as perfect an example of femininity as you can be,” Hurley said – values that are reminiscent of the “tradwife” movement and other far-right ideas about gender.
“The fundamental thing that these antis want to get rid of are not birth control pills, it’s not even abortion,” Hurley said. “They want to get rid of our autonomy and our ability to choose the direction of our own lives.”
Common Forms
May 2025 (III)
“Slow-Boil, Medium-High Heat” for Common Forms III: DIY
“I am just as old as the century. It’s between 30 and 50 that I’d like to have a family. I’d like a home like the ones that make perfect kindling for a California brush fire.
I’d like to ask the legislators that value (white) motherhood so much: Do I deserve to carry a pregnancy without concern for natural disasters? Extreme heat? Clean air and water? Does my child deserve to grow up among indigenous plants, animals, a Sun with kind rays?”
If Not Now
November 2024 (INN03)
“Brat Red, Brat Blue, Brat Me, Brat You” for INN03:
“You won’t only find her proselytizing in a dive bar or sharing her lighter at a house show; the “brat” is tortured by hangxiety, shut in her house after a night of social performance. The “brat” is on the perpetual run from her family, catching flights and numbing herself to escape her inherited rot. The “brat” feels simultaneous shame at the trajectory of her career and defensiveness over the integrity of her creations. The “brat” is jealous, paranoid, suicidal, grieving, grateful, ready to give up, ready to reinvent, ready to accept herself, horrified at that prospect.
The “brat” is not a 2024 “girl’s girl”—she is human.”
Prism Magazine
June 2025 | Co-written with Nicole Froio
“EXCLUSIVE: Is the tech bro-ification of abortion here?” for Prism
“As workers watch chatbots and other abortion tech stumble into a previously human workspace, there is fear emerging that abortion access may become gig-ified. Reproductive health care business models from Wisp to Hey Jane are steering away from the kind of community health centers now under attack by the Trump administration and turning instead toward the profit-hungry worlds of companies such as DoorDash and Hims, an online platform that offers a “concierge approach” to telehealth.
According to Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and co-executive director of We Testify: “The techbro-ification of abortion is coming.”
Substack Top Culture Posts
June 2025
“To Bomb Iran: Feminist-ly?” for JADE FAX
“The truth is, Netanyahu and the Israeli government's use of the human rights abuses experienced by the Iranian people is a bastardization. Even his invocation of the Persian, not the Kurdish, translation of the Woman Life Freedom slogan is also telling, if you know the history of the movement itself.
Luckily, I do.”