science
Face the Strange: Dani Shapiro Maps Her Family Secrets in “Inheritance”
“All my life, I had known there was a secret,” Dani Shapiro writes. “What I hadn’t known: the secret was me.”
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Reframing Abortion to Breathe Life into a “Culture of Death”
What if we decided that abortion is beneficial, essential, and sacred—regardless of when life actually begins?
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When It Comes to Reproductive Rights, We Need More Than Science on Our Side
People who don’t support reproductive freedom invoke science too.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: #MeToo Founder’s Letter to Dr. Ford
“We witnessed you show up for duty not as a superhero, but as a fully human woman.”
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Busy Philipps Accuses James Franco of Assault
Busy Philipps stated that the actor violently “threw her to the ground” while on the set of Freaks and Geeks.
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Uninformed and Uncompensated: Between 23andMe and Ancestry, Who Owns Our Genetic Data?
With the increasing popularity of genetic home-test kits, our DNA might soon be at the disposal of scientists without our knowledge, with semi-dubious consent, and without any credit or compensation.
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Of Mice and Men: When Research Excludes Female Rodents, Human Women Lose
The scientific implications of excluding female animals from scientific and biomedical research are astounding.
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It’s All In Your Head: The Dangers of Disbelieving Female Pain
Female pain exists in a crossroad of stigma, disbelief, and misogyny.
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Performance of a Lifetime: On Invisible Illness, Gender, and Disbelief
There’s little room for a patient’s subjective experience in a medical system organized around quantifiable results.
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