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: 3 February 2017

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

#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 …

A Deconstructionist Poem: Corporeal Veridiction

I decided to summarize my notes on governmentality, biopolitics, and disciplinary societies in the form of a poem. There are …