We had a lovely chat last night with a colleague of Jason's and his wife - a science education policy advocate. The question of eugenics arose - on the one hand, the long and difficult history of eugenics (, or as Jason put it, "Who...
Apr 9 - Jun 4 (every two weeks on Tuesday evenings) Verso's An Introduction to Radical Thinkers http://www.versobooks.com/events/627-an-introduction-to-radical-thinkers April 11-12 International Symposium – Within and beyond citizenship: lived experiences of contemporary membership http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/legal-status-international-symposia April 29 Can the United States Transcend its Racial History? How Immigration, Multiculturalism, Genomics, and the Young Might Create...
I've moved back to the south end of Seattle recently. Columbia City, more specifically. It's been a rather harsh relearning of the ways that racism permeates public transportation. I've always thought that riding the bus is something of an equalizer, but in the past two...
I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about race and diversity in the department (and the discipline more widely). They...
Our department had a Climate and Diversity Retreat today. A few things on what that is, first: As neoliberal restructuring continues to erode the academy, and particularly, as the academy (in the U.S.) continues to whiten at extraordinary rates through the erasure of loan and grant programs...