Cis (i.e., cisgender) refers to people who identify with their assigned sex and gender at birth. If you’re not trans, you are usually cis and have cis privilege. A trans man, for example, is usually best seen as someone who… Read More ›
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Blue and Pink Affect Our Perception of Others
As part of a guest lecture/workshop I gave today on the power of words, I did an experiment. (If I remember correctly, I read about this experiment in Delusions of Gender that I have often talked about on this blog.) There were… Read More ›
Learning That I Don’t Have to Tolerate Pain
One of the words that could summarize my life is pain: lots and lots of really bad pain. There have been many periods–years long–during my life where I hurt essentially all of the time. Given my body’s reaction to Neurofibromatosis,… Read More ›
Hidden Agendas?: STEM, Women, and Sexism
This evening it occurred to me (when I wasn’t trying to have any new ideas!) that it would be worth thinking through the recent specific emphasis on STEM programs (I first heard about this push in 2011) and its cultural,… Read More ›
People fear and ignore science because it’s true.
This thought-provoking meme came in my Facebook feed this evening and provides an opportunity to connect a few different thoughts: Take the following example: I currently have (and have had) a tumor in my brain around 4 or 5 mm… Read More ›
Conflicting Subjectivities – Haiku Series, #14
A haiku poem about the contradiction between human concerns, observations, and the broader world.
The People Deemed Too Expensive To Live – the Crisis of Health Care in 2016
Sometimes the United States is a disgusting thing. As another enrollment season begins, yet again, more health insurance companies are deciding who has the right to live and who doesn’t. I am again one of the millions of people deemed too… Read More ›
If the United States is a “Christian Nation”:
Misinformation abounds in public conversations and in historical memory. People give little regard to what, if any, greater truth or impact their beliefs and statements have. Hopes and fears true for one person are not necessarily true for others or are necessarily… Read More ›
