Jess BrooksinOn Race — ismsWe’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…Jun 19, 2020Jun 19, 2020
Jess BrooksinGenders, and other gendered things“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…Dec 19, 20191Dec 19, 20191
Jess BrooksinScience and Innovation“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…Dec 19, 2019Dec 19, 2019
Jess BrooksinScience and Innovation“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…Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
Jess BrooksinScience and Innovation“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…Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
Jess BrooksinIntersectional and Crossectional“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…Nov 28, 2019Nov 28, 2019
Jess BrooksinScience and Innovation“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…Nov 25, 20192Nov 25, 20192
Jess BrooksinOn Race — isms“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…Nov 25, 2019Nov 25, 2019
Jess BrooksinOn Race — isms“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…Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019
Jess BrooksinTotally Mental“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…Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019