Thinking About Mobility Across Scales & Borders: A Different Take on Travel Writing

When I travel, I like to carry a notebook with me. During my honeymoon, I carried a little gold-toned notebook- … More

“Moving Together”: Or Researching Health Care Access as a Disabled Academic

As I work on my dissertation, one question arises over and over: whether my disability status as a researcher matters, … More

Thinking about Social Positionality & Social Determinants of Health

Per 2015 American Community Survey (Census Bureau) data, non-institutionalized U.S. civilians with disabilities ages >16 had a median income of … More

Healthcare (& Related Issues) News Roundup: 10 March 2017

STAT – House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results (10 March 2017) This takes the ACA’s “workplace … More

Black History: Why A Political Economy of Healthcare Cannot Ignore Race & Racism

As a health geographer, it is a given that place matters. Where you are born, where you live, where you … More

Healthcare (& Related Issues) News Roundup: 3 February 2017

Chicago Tribune | (31 Jan 2017) Hearing Aids May Soon Be Sold Over-the-Counter Following the FDA scrapping a regulation that … More

Healthcare (& Related Issues) News Roundup: 13 Jan 2017

U.C. Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education | ACA repeal could cost California more than 200,000 jobs Also worth … More

Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”: Part 2

Writing is world-making, and speculative fiction and science fiction are genres of literature that are most telling of the writer’s … More

Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

So I’m (re)reading Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and wondering what the story would be like if Of-fred had been … More

Links and News Roundup: 12 November 2013

Solome Lemme, “Against the Gospel of ‘Africa Rising.’” On the continent, despite improvements in national economies, technology, and certain human … More

News and Links Roundup: 5 November 2013

Sarah Kendzior, “Surviving the Post-Employment Economy” “In the United States, nine percent of computer science majors are unemployed, and 14.7 … More

Black Bodies, Black Pain: (In)difference, Disparities in Medical Care, and the Legacy of Dysaesthesia Aethiopis

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston A study by Dr. Robert Fortuna of the University … More

No, You May Not Touch My Hair: Or Why Antonia Opiah’s Public Art Exhibit Misses the Mark

Antonia Opiah’s “You Can Touch My Hair” public art exhibit features Black women in Union Square, New York City, holding … More

#PhDOrBust… or Not: Is a PhD For Me?

I’ve been hesitant to write this post because it feels like I am possibly foreclosing options by doing so. After … More

Glass Ceilings, Grassroots, and Such: Why Top-Down Feminisms Don’t Work

When you shatter glass ceilings, does that mean you shower the grassroots with glass shards? I tweeted that in a … More