Journalism

I have over 10 years of experience as a journalist under my belt, including as a staff writer at VICE Denmark, and a track record of reporting through a feminist lens.

For example, I've exposed how the 'Nordic model' for regulating sex work increases violence against women; how over half of OnlyFans creators are abuse victims, but excluded from justice; and how Denmark violates asylum seekers' human rights to get them to leave the country faster.

My work has been used by Human Rights Watch in their advocacy, and I've been invited to speak at events like the Centre for Investigative Journalism's Summer Conference at Goldsmiths, University of London.

For the past two years, I've mostly worked as a freelance investigative journalist, particularly in cross-border projects. During that time, I've received grants from Journalismfund Europe and IJ4EU to support my work, and was awarded a Fellowship with the European Collaborative Journalism Programme.

Find a selection of my journalism below.

Consent violated: how creators pay the price for stolen OnlyFans content

For Unbias the News.
Illustration by Marie Schwab.

OnlyFans performers can't get justice

For The Fuller Project and Foreign Policy.
Photo via iStock/Foreign Policy.

OnlyFans leaks: when pictures become prey

For taz.de (in German).
Illustration by Pauline Cremer.

Inside the fight for feminist harm reduction

For If Not Now.
Download my article here.

Can Scandinavia liberate European wine from climate change?

For REVOLVE.
Photo by Berta Vicente Salas.

Denmark’s tough laws on begging hit Roma women with few other options 

For Al Jazeera.
Photo by Iben Gad.

How Denmark is deliberately infringing on the rights of people seeking asylum

For Unbias the News and shado mag.
Illustration by Natasha Phang-Lee.

How Denmark's stressed penal system pressures choir instructors

A radio piece for the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent. My story starts at 22:42.

The debate around climate change in the Hautes-Alpes

A radio piece for the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent. My story starts at 5:50.

How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workers

For openDemocracy.

Ukraine doesn't need the Russian diaspora's shame. It needs its voice

For openDemocracy.

Photo by Andrew Wilson. 

Sex workers need better access to healthcare. Where do we begin?

For culutrico.

Selling decriminalised sex work to the public: a guide

For openDemocracy.
Artwork by Carys Boughton.

The VICE guide to Copenhagen: Vesterbro

One of three films exploring Copenhagen's most iconic neighbourhoods — hosted by me. Watch the film here.

The VICE guide to Copenhagen: Nørrebro

The VICE guide to Copenhagen: Sydhavnen

Sex Work, stigma and the challenge of harm reduction in Denmark

For openDemocracy.
Artwork by Carys Boughton.

Paying taxes gives Danish residents equal rights — unless you're a sex worker

For The Murmur.
Photo by Peter Stanners.

People are finally having sex in Copenhagen's sex ambulance

For VICE UK.
Photo by Sarah Riisager.

Talking to my grandma about her 12 abortions

For VICE.

Indigenous doulas are reclaiming birth practices colonisation tried to erase

For VICE.

This is what Chernobyl, the West Bank and your ears sound like

For Noisey.
Photo by Jacob Kirkegaard.

Why so many rapists don't realise they're rapists

For VICE.

The free workshop teaching addicts and volunteers to reverse overdoses

For VICE.
Photo by Einar Ágúst.

What it means to be a 'colour hunter', as explained by designer Margrethe Odgaard

For FRAME.
Photo by Brian Buchard.

How indigenous millennials are using tech to save their dying languages

For VICE.
Photo by Helen Sessions.

Why EcologicStudio makes a case against the sanitised
'green city'

For FRAME.

Polina Bachlakova
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