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…5 min read·Jun 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…2 min read·Dec 19, 2019--1--1
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…1 min read·Dec 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…1 min read·Dec 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…2 min read·Dec 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…2 min read·Nov 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…2 min read·Nov 25, 2019--2--2
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…1 min read·Nov 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…1 min read·Nov 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…2 min read·Nov 21, 2019----