Content warning: medical abuse, sexual violence against enslaved people, racism, racist violence, medical history, abuse apologism, slavery * * * * So, I've been kind of absent lately, but there's nothing like valentine's day and the extreme racism that is marion sims and the story of "modern gynecology" to get me heated enough to recover … Continue reading lets go back in time and murder marion sims and “modern gynecology”
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I spend more time than I wanna admit yelling at NPR while I drive, perhaps evidence that the good white liberals who raised and then disowned me are lodged deeper in my brain than I wanna admit. NPR liberalism is trash. Like, come back when you're willing to put anything real on the line, when … Continue reading Joint pain, health care is a racist, patriarchal clusterfuck, and proxy measures are political as hell: A study I dislike very much, and some ragging on my folks
CN: sexual predators, the most recent time i was sexually harassed in academia, Tamir Rice's murder, racism, trashing our idols, including Eli "Predatory" Weisel In case you haven't had the pleasure of meeting me, or the misfortune of sitting next to me in any kind of professional situation where it would be so much better … Continue reading Fuck Neutral, In Case I Haven’t Said It Before: A book review, and a bad old man
Let me start by saying I support the ever-loving fuck out of paid parental leave. Imma say it again: I'm an old school commie feminist, and I support the ever-loving fuck out of paid parental leave. Not because it improves outcomes for kids (as claimed by highly questionable science; more about that later). Not because … Continue reading That time a study about access to parental leave inadvertently showed us that how we define mental health is capitalist as hell, and also wrong
Quantitative research looks for mathematical relationships and statistically significant differences between neatly defined concepts, called variables. It is often described as elegant, simple, and therefore definitive and scientific, and here's where I'm going to start throwing down. Partly because the idea that simpler equates to more scientific, and therefore more correct, strikes me as inherently … Continue reading Nothing meaningful is ever simple: The danger of dichotomizing variables
My mother has her own terrifying brand of religion and ritual, which as an adult I can recognize as her disordered attempt at keeping the family trauma at bay, but wisdom comes with age and my earliest memories are of being lost at sea, swimming through the images she lived by, disjointed scenes of biblical … Continue reading Infinitesimally small findings, divorced from context: further reflections on teaching research methods as social justice
I returned to my phd program this semester with the intention of keeping my head down and getting the fuck out with a bullshit degree that would allow me to lead more of my own research projects. I think I actually said that out loud to several people, who all tried to stifle their laughter … Continue reading Missing the (desecrated) forest for the twigs: Research’s suspicious neglect of environmental racism as a thing
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