bylines
A full list of Alexandra's published writing.
The Nation
- Aug. 27, 2026 This Little Bird Is in Big Trouble—and Trump Is Making Things Worse+ photo
- June 12, 2026 The Bald Eagle Perfectly Embodies America’s Flawsprint + web
- March 17, 2026 Why Climate Activists Are Protesting Their Favorite Sports Teams+ photos
Defector
- July 15, 2026 Trans Girl Baseball Makes Me A Better Woman+ photos
- July 7, 2025 The Anti-Fascist Power Of Trans Women Wrestling In Nacho Cheese+ photos
Sentient
FlintaForum
- July 25, 2025 smoke day
- March 21, 2025 Castration Movie Review
- March 7, 2025 cultural updates
Audubon
- May 22, 2025 10 Fun Facts About the Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- April 11, 2025 Why Is Everyone Obsessed With the ‘Awebo’ Bird?
- Sept. 21, 2022 A Global Antenna Network Is the Next Frontier of Migration Scienceprint + web
- Sept. 20, 2022 Who Runs the Forest? Increasingly, in the Southeast, It’s Womenprint + web
- Aug. 26, 2022 How to Help Birds Beat the Heat
- June 28, 2022 Avian Flu Threatens Seabird Nesting Colonies on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- June 10, 2022 Efforts to Save North America's Most Endangered Bird Are Succeeding
Slate
- Dec. 4, 2024 How Raw Milk Could Spark a Pandemic
- March 16, 2024 This Shouldn’t Be New York City’s Most Common Tree
The New York Times
Curbed
- April 30, 2024 The Showdown at NYU Over Public Space
Hell Gate
- Sept. 12, 2023 Up All Night at the 9/11 Memorial, Looking Out for Birds+ photos
Rare BirdSubstack
- Aug. 21, 2026 Dusk Falls+ photo illustration
- April 6, 2026 Swanderlust+ photos
- May 15, 2025 ‘Exhausted faithful return’
- April 30, 2025 Toward Birds, for Whom?
- April 11, 2025 It’s a Bird— It’s a Plane— Oh No+ photo illustration+ data visuals
- Feb. 26, 2025 For Reasons Known Only to Itself+ photos
- Nov. 11, 2024 Seven sketches from iNaturalist
- March 28, 2024 The Flaco Fandom Betrayed the Owl They Loved+ photos
- Aug. 25, 2023 Split+ photo illustration
- June 3, 2022 May 2022 Brooklyn, N.Y., Bicknell’s Thrush+ photos
- May 10, 2022 Jan. 2022 Southern Ocean Prothonotary Warbler
Washington Square News
- May 6, 2024 Top NYU trustee calls for FBI action on protests
- April 17, 2024 NYU’s Paulson atrium restrictions might violate 2012 legal agreement+ photos
- March 4, 2024 Thousands take to Washington Square to protest for cease-fire in Gaza+ photos
- Oct. 17, 2023 NYU students respond to Israel-Palestine conflict at citywide protests+ photosshared byline
- Aug. 4, 2023 Streamer Kai Cenat’s meetup stirs up mayhem in Union Square+ photos
- April 6, 2023 For trans people, what comes after visibility?+ photos
- Feb. 16, 2023 Listen To This: Sidney Gish ponders what could’ve been in “Filming School”excerpt
- Nov. 23, 2022 A tax break is saving NYU $141 million this year. Here’s how.+ photos
- Nov. 21, 2022 A day of magical thinking at the Joan Didion estate sale+ photo illustration
- Nov. 16, 2022 Strike upends classes at The New Schoolshared byline
- Nov. 6, 2022 Slavoj Zizek is the public intellectual for an absurd world+ photo illustration
- May 5, 2022 Q&A: Time, place and live music with The Front Bottoms’ Brian Sella
- May 2, 2022 Editorial: Do no harm, Grossman. Reject Sabatini.shared byline
- April 18, 2022 Students upset by NYU response to roommate’s mental health crisis
- April 18, 2022 Editorial: Don’t throw more money at the failing NYPDshared byline
- Feb. 14, 2022 The case for the <3 emoticon
- Feb. 4, 2022 Review: On ‘Laurel Hell,’ Mitski blooms
- Jan. 24, 2022 Letter from the editor: On transition
- Jan. 10, 2022 NYU alumni newsletter hints at in-person spring 2022 semestershared byline
- Jan. 10, 2022 NYU COVID positivity rate more than 20x pre-omicron averageshared byline
- Dec. 10, 2021 Sometimes, expensive gifts… are bettershared byline
- Dec. 9, 2021 Listen to this: Mitski strikes again with new single ‘Heat Lightning’excerpt
- Nov. 20, 2021 Opinion: Do us justice with your trans remembrance
- Nov. 11, 2021 Mitski is back. God help us all.
- Oct. 22, 2021 NYU offers free new ID cards to reflect chosen names, updated photosshared byline
- Oct. 18, 2021 Bird-safe glass design at 181 Mercer saves wildlife and energy
- Oct. 4, 2021 Ranked: NYC nature+ photos
- Sept. 22, 2021 ‘Forgotten NYU,’ Episode 2: ‘A New Type of Normal’
- Sept. 15, 2021 ‘Forgotten NYU,’ Episode 1: Ground Zero
- Aug. 30, 2021 Read this before you kill your succulents
- April 27, 2021 You could be quarantined in your dorm for reporting your vaccine side effects
- March 29, 2021 Migrating birds imperiled by NYU buildings as spring approaches+ photos
- March 16, 2021 As spring approaches, break doesn’t
- Sept. 13, 2018 NYU’s Preferred Name System Helps Trans Students at School, but Could Hurt Them at Home
December 2021–May 2022Editor's Note newsletters
- May 7, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: The end of the semester
- April 30, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Introducing WSN’s next Editor-in-Chief
- April 23, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Daily Screener, NYU Survival Guide
- April 16, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Safety concerns persist
- April 9, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: The “Re:” special issue
- April 2, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: A memorial fund to support WSN staff
- March 26, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: What purpose do letters to the editor serve?
- March 19, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: The semester’s top stories (so far)
- March 12, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Spring break reads
- March 5, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: This week’s top stories, and WSN vs. world news
- Feb. 26, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Defining editorials; on-campus safety concerns
- Feb. 19, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: Housing Guide, campus attacks; digital accessibility
- Feb. 12, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: SGA updates, nurse burnout, our editing process
- Feb. 5, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: COVID rules eased; notes on a retraction
- Jan. 29, 2022 Editor’s Note newsletter: COVID news and how to make your voice heard
- Dec. 11, 2021 Editor’s Note newsletter: A new newsletter from WSN’s editor-in-chief