health
Numbers Game: Pro-Ana, Incels, and the Incessant Policing of Women’s Bodies
For incels and pro-ana alike, conforming to beauty standards is the only path to happiness and success.
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Bravado and Branding: Instagrammable Startups Can’t Save Trans Healthcare
We can’t rely on the economy of influencers to solve a healthcare disparity.
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Can Pregnant People Take the COVID Vaccine? Nobody Knows.
Pregnant women are simply presumed to be unfit for trials, when in fact, they should be presumed to be integral.
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The Cautious Gene: Genetic Testing Inherits a Legacy of Distrust
The complexity of working with and understanding DNA is steeped in institutional racism and the historical mistreatment of people of color by the medical community.
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Our Healthcare System Is Completely Unprepared for Long COVID
How will our healthcare system accommodate an influx of post-viral symptoms weeks, months, and even years after the pandemic is under control?
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Out of Network: What’s Really Behind “Health-Sharing” Ministries?
The pandemic has underscored how one person’s “faith” can be weaponized against others to worsen an already shared precarity.
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Colleges Are Fumbling Their Response to Coronavirus—Again
It didn’t have to be this way, but this is what happens when colleges are more concerned with sports, the money they get from dormitories, or the ability to charge facility fees than they are with the health of their students and their professors.
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World on Fire: Environmental Racism and COVID-19 Are a Deadly Combination
Ultimately, the only cure for environmental racism is to entirely dismantle the structures that allow it to fester.
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Collective Softening: Jenara Nerenberg Seeks to Empower Neurodivergent Women
A flawed medical system leaves women with neurological differences, such as ADHD and autism, overlooked and misunderstood.
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Continental Grift: Wellness and the Western Consumption of India
A cultural obsession with Indian-centered wellness also comes from a place that acknowledges that everyone, sick or not, is in some way fundamentally broken.
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