Science for the People is proud to introduce our two inaugural Circle Holders, Rochelle Gutiérrez and Max Liboiron. Circle Holder is an honor granted to individuals and groups whose work at the intersection of power, ideology, and equity in science is paving the way for diverse and just scientific futures. Circle...
Biological essentialism and reductionism have plagued how we scientists do science, and how society looks at the science we do, for a very long time. Biological essentialism refers to the idea that who we are is purely innate, a hardwired...
A Guide to Action for Advocates of the Green New Deal A Review of Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation By Jamie Bemis Volume 22, number 2, Envisioning and Enacting the Science We Need Creating an Ecological...
Growing up, there was a globe on my family’s living room table. My brother and I would play “vacation,” spinning the globe and dragging our fingers along the rotating lines of latitude. Wherever our fingers pointed when the globe stopped...
Where did the 1970s radical science movement begin? Some may say it started in a grand conference hall, where Nobel Prize winner Maurice Wilkins declared that science was in a state of crisis.
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that capitalism is not just a system of wage labor, but a system that thrives by exploiting and extracting value from labor through any means necessary: gigging subcontractors, interns...
Chapter and Working Group Reports, Autumn 2019 Reports from Science for the People working groups and chapters SftP Retreat, Blacksburg Chapter, Labor Working Group, Science for Puerto Rico, Social Sciences Discussion Group Volume 22...
Through its “STEM Justice” model, the KAYSC works to change narratives around science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and how people relate to STEM. In this pathway program of out-of-school-time learning, work, and leadership...
Healthcare practitioners regularly minimize the pain of people of color. This is particularly so for women of color, whose bodies have been subjected to regular suspicion and abuse. The fields of science and medicine, renowned for progress...
Less than thirty miles south of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River, LA-23 takes a southern turn through Belle Chasse, winds down past the Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery, to the communities of Ironton, Davant, and Myrtle...
