We know the images: cruise ships with sick passengers searching for a place to dock or turned into off-shore quarantine […]
Making a Ruckus: Considering The Goop Lab
The six-episode series, The Goop Lab, launched in January on Netflix aiming to “explore ideas that may seem out there […]
Butter and the History of U.S. Dietary Guides since 1894
Creamy, sometimes salty, and optimistically yellow, butter is one of my favorite foods. It’s also a scientific and cultural barometer. […]
Cancer DIY: Gendered Politics, Colonialism, and the Circulation of Self-Sampling Screening Technologies in Canada
Innovative. Exciting. Easy. Painless. These are just some of the words used to describe the Delphi Screener — a sterile, […]
Mokgadi Caster Semenya v. The Patriarchy and its IAAF Minions
I am a woman and I am a world-class athlete. The IAAF will not drug me or stop me from […]
“Good” Teeth: American Dental Care and Classism
I used to hide my own teeth. It started in fourth grade during spring photos. When my big adult teeth […]
“The Egg” in the Twenty-First Century: A Family’s Holistic Healing and Cleansing Practice
In the early 2000s, my great-aunt performed a holistic healing act on my mother with an egg. My mother, sick […]
Missing Leaf: Placing Cannabis in the American Herbal Renaissance
Given the daily barrage of distressing headlines, you will be forgiven for not noticing that the United States is in […]
This is Not a Culture of Life, This is a Culture of Un-Death
Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long […]
At the Crossroads of Comfort TV and Comfort Food
When I started my PhD, a kind mentor advised me to cope with graduate school’s stresses by eating chocolate and […]
