“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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

#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 …

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 …

An Open Letter to Self-Identified Allies to [Marginalized Group]

Dear Self-Identified Ally, (1) Remember that your identity as an “ally” is contingent upon the maintenance of the status quo. …

Is Your Respectability Bulletproof?: The (bio)Politics of Respectability and the Lives that Matter

I see this image used without irony all over the internet. I don’t think it’s funny. It just reminds me …

The Calculus of Life

Brown body. Gendered body. Classed body. Dis/abled body. Queer body. Transgressive bodies. The calculus of life leaves these Othered bodies …

Thoughts, as usual

“Constantly seeking external affirmation will ultimately disempower you. Yes, who are can be (and is) subjective and relational, but by …

Rethinking the Ontological Basis of Feminisms

“Feminism made a mistake in trying to make “women” a discrete, ahistorical group with common characteristics.” – Judith Butler ”No …