Journalist; writer; cultural critic
She writes about the subjects people are taught not to discuss.
Sandra Rose Salathe examines how power enters the most intimate parts of women’s lives; through health journalism, cultural criticism, horror, and the stories we tell about who gets to be heard.
About Sandra
For more than a decade, Sandra has reported on women’s health, including abortion rights, menstruation, contraception, menopause, sexual health, and the systems that determine who is heard, believed, and cared for.
But her work has never been only about health. It is about the stories a culture tells women about their bodies, choices, relationships, ambitions, anger, and fear.
Sandra brings the rigor of a reporter and the curiosity of a cultural critic to every assignment. She is interested in the hidden rule beneath the visible story; who benefits from it, who pays for it, and what changes when women refuse to follow it.
- Rewire News Group
- Well+Good
- Glamour
- SELF
- Shape
- Elite Daily
- Vox
- Yahoo Finance
- SHE Media
The same question; a different lens
What does horror tell the truth about before the rest of culture is ready to listen?
That question is at the heart of Matriarchs of Horror , the podcast and editorial project Sandra created to explore horror through a feminist lens.
Through essays, interviews, book recommendations, and cultural criticism, she examines what horror reveals about women, power, desire, rage, aging, intimacy, religion, authorship, and resistance.
Sandra treats horror as more than entertainment. To her, it is a cultural record; a place where fears hidden in ordinary life become impossible to ignore.
Her mission
Make hidden systems visible.
- Who has the power to define what is normal, safe, desirable, or dangerous?
- Whose experiences are believed; and whose are dismissed?
- What happens when women refuse the roles written for them?
Her goal is not simply to explain a subject. It is to give people a new way to see it.
What she is building now
Sandra is bringing the different strands of her work together through continued journalism, Matriarchs of Horror, her first book, podcasting, speaking, and collaborations with publishers and cultural organizations.
The formats change; the throughline does not. Her work asks people to look more closely at the stories that shape women’s lives and at the power structures those stories can conceal.
When she is not reporting, writing, or recording, Sandra can usually be found searching New York’s vintage stores, reading something unsettling, or spending time with her husband and their opinionated Siamese cat, Taco.
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