Elder Care vs. Child Care: Which Would You Rather Talk About?
Category: Daily Struggles
Elder care is done, for the most part, off to the side and in the shadows.
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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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Naming Experience:
Exercising Your Privilege In Front of The Unwashed Masses
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 •
Just Letting You Know Where I Am
Category: Announcements
Dear Zuskateers, I feel I am letting you down by taking so long to bring you the next Gender Knot post. Personal life has just been immensely chaotic. (I actually intend to blog about a recent piece of that shortly.)...
Posted by Zuska at 2:13 AM • 1 Comments •
How Do Blogs Help Recruit Women and Minorities in the Geosciences?
Category: Announcements
UPDATE: Pat Campbell has asked that if you did take the survey initially when it was returning 404 errors, and you subsequently re-took it, drop her an email and she will send you cookies! She has promised to send cookies...
Posted by Zuska at 2:31 PM • 6 Comments •
New Book on African American Women in Science
Category: Naming Experience
" 'They looked at us like we were not supposed to be scientists,' says one young African American girl, describing one openly hostile reaction she encountered in the classroom."
Posted by Zuska at 9:08 AM • 4 Comments •
A Question for Women in Geoscience/Environmental Science/Field Science
Category: Announcements
Kim at All of My Faults Are Stress Related asks: I've got a question for women readers, especially those in the geosciences, environmental sciences, or field sciences: what do you get out of reading blogs? And if you have a...
Posted by Zuska at 6:16 PM • 2 Comments •
How Many U.S. Counties Today Provide Abortion Services?
Category: Burns My Shorts
See if you can figure out...the answer to the blog post question.
Posted by Zuska at 9:15 AM • 18 Comments •
Silence Is The Enemy
Category: Naming Experience
By now perhaps you have heard of the Silence Is The Enemy project started by Sheril Kirshenbaum at The Intersection with help from Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess. From Sheril's post: Today begins a very important...
Posted by Zuska at 11:07 PM • 37 Comments •
On Being A Patient
Category: Daily Struggles
Patients want their doctors to be competent and right and kind, and we will sometimes go on desperately trying to convince ourselves that they are so even in the face of overwhelming evidence against it.
Posted by Zuska at 6:46 PM • 36 Comments •
Shush! This is an Examining Room!
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Let me tell you what really hacked me off about this year's pilgrimage to Stirrup-Land.
Posted by Zuska at 9:26 PM • 42 Comments •
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