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

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

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

#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

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. … More

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 … More

On The Anti-Trafficking Discourse and its Material Consequences

(cross-linked with my other blog) WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING? According to the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially … More

In Defense of a More Deliberately Corporeal Feminism

“The body is the inscribed surface of events.” – Michel Foucault If you haven’t yet, I recommend the previous blog … More

A Thought Exercise on Discursive Violences

Do you know what it is to be the Other? To be ascribed marginal status and identity on the basis … More

Why Invisible Child’s #Kony2012 Campaign Gets No Applause From Me

In short: #Kony2012 #StopKony misrepresents N. Uganda, spreads misinformation abt Kony/the LRA, denies Africans’ agency and is imperialist. It raises … More

Forcible Resettlement and Land Grabs in Ethiopia

Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges Organization’s Blog Ethiopia is Africa’s biggest aid recipient, and one of Africa’s most food-insecure nations. Simultaneously, … More

Update: Dispatch from Atlanta

Hello All, It’s been a while since I blogged here. I am well, and I have been busy. As I … More

Land Grabs and Deforestation in South Sudan

[Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges’ blog] According to a report issued by the Oakland Institute, hedge fund land grabs … More