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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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Making Disability Visible:
Health Round-up From The Pharmboy
There's been some quite lively blogging recently over at Abel Pharmboy's pad. Of particular note was the live-blogged vasectomy: Anyway, as a medical blogger, I will try to liveblog the process from my Palm Treo 700p at the Hospital-That-Tobacco-Built. While...Posted on February 29, 2008 11:53 PM • 7 Comments •
Tip-toeing Back Into Blogging
The Family and Medical Leave Act is such a minimal start. I suppose it's better than nothing, but just barely.Posted on January 9, 2008 4:18 PM • 16 Comments •
Don't Even Think of Parking There!
Earlier this month, my siblings and I were out on a daylong excursion with my mother. It was lunchtime, and we decided to go to local restaurant for our meal. We pulled into the plaza parking lot and my...Posted on December 10, 2007 9:59 PM • 18 Comments •
Beach Wheelchair
Posting will be sparse to non-existent over the next week, as it has been the past few days. This is because I'm hanging with Mom for a week or so. Actually, I'm hanging with my mom and my sister at...Posted on September 16, 2007 11:26 PM • 5 Comments •
Selecting An Auxiliary Brain
Here's the problem: I've got migraines. So I take topamax. Topamax helps decrease the occurrence of daily headache and decrease the frequency of migraine. But topamax has side effects. A really bad one is cognitive confusion. This manifests itself in...Posted on September 3, 2007 3:55 PM • 13 Comments •
How Do You Balance Nothing?
I don't know how to find balance, because I imagine there's nothing to balance.Posted on July 30, 2007 11:45 PM • 9 Comments •
California Haz Cheez!
Today I wish I were a mad scientist of cheese.Posted on July 11, 2007 3:14 PM • 4 Comments •
I'm Sick of Being Sick
Prolactinomas are benign tumors and relatively easily treated, but still, I'm hoping for B.Posted on June 28, 2007 6:04 PM • 14 Comments •
I'll Be Back Soon...
I don't know if you've missed me, but I've missed blogging these last two weeks. However, my body has demanded a period of healing and I have acquiesced. The neck and shoulder are screaming less these days, and tomorrow I...Posted on March 15, 2007 8:41 PM • 6 Comments •
Happy Birthday, Annie!
today is Annie Jump Cannon's birthdayPosted on December 11, 2006 4:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Not Even On the Radar Screen
To ask real, serious, difficult questions about male reproductive health requires challenging ingrained assumptions about what it means to be a man.Posted on November 2, 2006 1:29 PM • 11 Comments •
Best Science TV Show EVER!
So, you ask us bloggers this week... ...What's the best science TV show of all time?......Posted on October 21, 2006 11:50 PM • 6 Comments •
Too Much Pink? or, What Should I Be Doing?
"...a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask you, are you doing yours?"
Posted on October 16, 2006 11:33 PM • 6 Comments •
Not Just a Headache
Here's a mini-list of things you should never, ever, ever say to someone with disabling migraines...
Posted on October 2, 2006 5:41 PM • 20 Comments •
