InOn Race — ismsbyJess Brooks·Jun 19, 2020We’ve been here: Selections from 6+ years of anti-racist internet readingRecognizing and responding to racism is a journey. If you find yourself in a dramatically different place from where you were in 2014, or…
InGenders, and other gendered thingsbyJess Brooks·Dec 19, 2019“Have you ever noticed how often the origin of breasts is explained as “for men”?”“If you’re going to argue that breast size has been selected for, you either have to show that small-breasted women have a reduced fitness…A response icon1A response icon1
InScience and InnovationbyJess Brooks·Dec 19, 2019“The phrase ‘necessary and sufficient’ blamed for flawed neuroscience”“The logic of the term is at the heart of the dispute. It’s too often used as shorthand to mean ‘linked to’ or ‘important for’, the…
InScience and InnovationbyJess Brooks·Dec 1, 2019“Braces Have Made Snoring a Modern Health Problem”“Bulky braces can further constrict this vital breathing pathway, but in Ehrlich and Kahn’s view, the problem is really that they are a…
InScience and InnovationbyJess Brooks·Dec 1, 2019“South America’s Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors”“Trepanation likely started as a treatment for head wounds, says David Kushner, a neurologist at the University of Miami in Florida. After…
InIntersectional and CrossectionalbyJess Brooks·Nov 28, 2019“The classist vilification of the Black Friday shopper”“This was in a Walmart with a majority black staff and clientele, and it was kind of covered in a way that the LA riots were. There were…
InScience and InnovationbyJess Brooks·Nov 25, 2019“Laziness Does Not Exist”“when I see a student failing to complete assignments, missing deadlines, or not delivering results in other aspects of their life, I’m…A response icon2A response icon2
InOn Race — ismsbyJess Brooks·Nov 25, 2019“ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.”“the day Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Southeastern Provision plant outside the city and sent dozens of workers to…
InOn Race — ismsbyJess Brooks·Nov 21, 2019“White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness”“So long as we aren’t hanging out with white nationalists, marrying into a family of color or chuckling over jokes about our dancing, we…
InTotally MentalbyJess Brooks·Nov 21, 2019“Suicide in a Culture of Mandated Happiness — Who’s to Blame?”“As Noel Hunter said, “When 45,000 people a year would rather die than live in this world any longer, it might behoove us all to consider…
