Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party […]
Man vs. Bear? TikTok as a Platform for Contemporary Feminist Consciousness Raising
Trigger Warning: Mention of gender-based violence In the spring of 2024, millions of TikTok users weighed in on a seemingly […]
Clio in Motion
It’s not fitness. It’s life. This is a marketing slogan of a high-end fitness center where I have worked as […]
The Strange Nostalgia of Childbirth
Nostalgia inflects modern childbirth. When I first became pregnant, back in August 2022, I joined a few Facebook groups dedicated […]
An Intimate Numbers Game: Histories of Quantifying Pelvic Floor Strength
The Elvie Trainer promises to “take the guesswork out of your workout.” Alongside other devices like the Elitone and the […]
On the Move: How Sports Clothes Became Fashion?
Even if you are not a gym rat or a sport enthusiast, it is almost impossible today to escape the […]
Are We Becoming Ivan Drago? Analyzing Today’s Fitness Tech through Rocky IV
In Rocky IV (1985), American Rocky Balboa fights the USSR’s Ivan Drago in a boxing match that animates Cold War […]
Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.
The Atlantic’s August cover story by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” describes how some jurisdictions, in the midst […]
Are Our Smart Devices Turning Us into Dumb Humans?
Are all of our “smart” devices training us to be “dumb” humans, too-often indistinguishable from mere machines? As click-through contracts […]
Microwave Cookbooks: Technology, Convenience & Dining Alone
The microwave is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, but even that can’t redeem the innumerable copies of microwave cookbooks […]
