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Carter Sherman is a veteran journalist currently serving as cohost of Stateside with Kai and Carter at The Guardian. She has extensive experience reporting on reproductive health, gender, and sexuality issues, including work as a senior reporter for Vice and contributions to publications such as Elle, Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles magazine.
Sherman is the author of The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future, a book examining how the internet and contemporary political polarization have reshaped attitudes toward sex and relationships. The work addresses topics ranging from school board disputes over sexual education curricula to questions of abortion access. To complete the book, Sherman conducted interviews with more than 100 people under 30 about their perspectives on sex in the context of the #MeToo movement, the pandemic, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Throughout her career, Sherman has received recognition for her work, including a Scripps Howard Award, a National Press Club Journalism Award, and four Emmy nominations. She describes her French press coffee maker as an indispensable tool, attributing her coffee preferences to her Seattle background. When facing creative obstacles, Sherman maintains a notes collection of evocative phrases and passages from writers including Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Katie Kitamura, which she consults to help overcome writer’s block and inspire her own work.
In her personal life, Sherman recently completed watching the first eight seasons of the animated series Rick and Morty. She also maintains nostalgic memories of playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time during childhood, though the game’s musical accompaniment to certain dungeons caused her significant fear at the time.