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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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August 31, 2009
Category: The Best Health Insurance In the WORLD!!!!
We are ALL victimized by a system in which it is just the luck of the draw whether or not you end up with semi-adequate health insurance coverage at the time you need it.
Posted by Zuska at 9:13 PM • 14 Comments •
August 26, 2009
Category: Health Insurance Makes Me Crazy
I have a friend. She has a daughter. While in college, the daughter was covered on the parents' health insurance policy. Well, sorta. As part of her college program, the daughter had to do an internship. Hey, that's great! Great...
Posted by Zuska at 11:24 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: The Best Health Insurance In the WORLD!!!!
what's the difference between throwing five or ten dollars into the can at the car wash to help this young woman out, versus what we might be doing if we all paid a bit in taxes to make sure that everyone had adequate health insurance coverage?
Posted by Zuska at 10:15 PM • 77 Comments •
Category: Some Good News For A Change
Mr. Z was watching over my shoulder and as I cooed with pleasure over my achievement he called me Julia. Heh. Not really,
Posted by Zuska at 9:47 PM • 10 Comments •
August 25, 2009
Category: Health Insurance Makes Me Crazy
That's how the fantastic salaries for their CEOs are made - every goddamned dollar of them earned through your frustration, your conclusion that it is easier to pay the $5 a tablet for Singulair than to spend who knows how many hours it will take on the phone to get your coverage - an argument you may have to go through not just once, but repeatedly.
Posted by Zuska at 6:36 PM • 37 Comments •
August 21, 2009
Category: Naming Experience
If you are a U.S. student about to walk on campus this fall as a graduate student, think for a minute what your fellow international students have gone through just to get to the same place that you are.
Posted by Zuska at 12:21 PM • 23 Comments •
August 15, 2009
Category: Manifestoes
I'm telling you, the system works, they have figured out how to take the raw talent and produce skilled researchers. It's just that they only do it for the ones who look most like themselves.
Posted by Zuska at 8:57 PM • 21 Comments •
August 14, 2009
Category: Burns My Shorts
Via Female Science Professor, 'Study: Women create 'their own glass ceiling': A new study shows female managers are more than three times as likely as their male counterparts to underrate their bosses' opinions of their job performance. The discrepancy increases...
Posted by Zuska at 7:52 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Health Insurance Makes Me Crazy
I'm going to tell you something the health insurance company probably won't, because I'm not sure that the people who answer the phones even understand that their system works like this.
Posted by Zuska at 5:32 PM • 6 Comments •
August 6, 2009
Category: Tales From The Coal Patch
Regular readers may know that my mother has been living in an assisted living home since January of 2008. Making the move to the AL home was agonizing for her and everyone in our family. Previously, my mother had been...
Posted by Zuska at 3:17 AM • 12 Comments •
