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Blending Right In

Every day, an octopus spends the same amount of energy changing color as it does on nearly all of their other metabolic actions (digestion, respiration, etc.) combined.

Abandoning the Deficit Model

It is our collective responsibility to learn how to communicate science accessibly in and outside of the classroom since there is no one way to teach, conduct, or communicate science.

Reimagining Disability

Reimagining disability as a social construct rather than a personal deficit demands a cultural transformation. Current narratives often reduce disability to a limitation, feeding a culture of shame and exclusion. Instead, we must...

Dismantling the Cancer Industrial Complex

In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metastasis lays out the story of cancer...

Poetry for Sexual Awareness Month

burning grasses, burning trees,
fire
surging to form smoke, the shape of leaves,
meshwork, seeds, hiding somewhere behind the hills,
I turn to the trees, their truncated bodies like ghosts of women
in ashen amber sheaths.

Childhood Detention Under Military Occupation

Every night in occupied Palestine, armed Israeli soldiers force their way into Palestinian homes, waking up the household and arresting children. This leaves Palestinians constantly vulnerable to, and fearful of, arbitrary invasions into...