“It’s hard to shake these foundational mistruths, but to understand the history of women’s health is to understand the reason why we feel the way we do about our bodies, why the medical establishment has evolved the way that it has, and how we can all become better advocates for our own health and hopefully for generations to come.” Elizabeth Comen, Oncologist, author of “All in Her Head”
“This decision is a win for Texas and a win for free speech. The book rating system in HB 900 is a clearly unconstitutional requirement that would irreparably harm booksellers across the state,” said Laura Prather, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in a statement. The plaintiffs include bookshops in Houston and Austin, the American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. Book Rating Law Blocked in Texas
“No later than Dec. 31, 2025, any research supported with federal grant money is made freely available upon publication so that anyone, anywhere, can immediately access and use the research outcomes.” Memo by Dr. Alondra Nelson of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to all Federal Agencies, August 2022
“Mainstream feminism leaves so many women behind and is so exclusionary. So if that’s ‘good feminism’ then yes, I’m a very bad feminist.” Roxane Gay in an interview in The Evening Standard
Kids listen to podcasts! Kids Listen is a grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children. Kids Listen is a grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children.
Elizabeth Acevedo on her new book “Family Lore:” “I think for me, the best way to process shame is to look at it, let the light in. We can’t even recognize what’s at play until we just put eyes on it. And I think in writing all of this, it was just letting it out. Like, yeah, my mom is going to read this. She’s going to have concerns. And it’s also like, yeah, mom, and that is what I write.” Interviewed by Allison Armijo of The Los Angeles Times.
The social sciences are useless. So why do we study them? We study the natural sciences because they help us understand the natural world and they also solve problems, from vaccines to the building of bridges to more efficient food production. We study the social sciences because they help us understand the social world and because, whatever we do, people will engage in social-science reasoning. Andrew Gelman
“Do not romanticize poverty. Do not exoticize underdevelopment. Do not indulge in naive fantasies about the hardship of preindustrial life. (Full disclosure: I have sweated for years as a migrant farmworker picking apples, pears, grapes, and oranges and a homicidal ranch mule once pranced my spine as I wrestled shoeing it).
Yet surely, the bigger fantasy is believing that humankind’s addictive, exploding, mass-produced economy, as configured today, is anywhere near sustainable.” A Handmade World, by Paul Salpek, National Geographic
Author Katie Gutierrez reviewed the book Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine (out in June 2023) on Goodreads. Gutierrez says, “Maddalena and the Dark is chocolate laced with poison. To read it is to fall under an enchantment: 18th-century Venice, desire and obsession, music and ambition, lagoons and monsters. Julia Fine is a writer of ferocious talent and originality, and with her third novel she has crafted a sweeping, dark fairy tale about the violent hearts of teenage girls. I loved it from the first sentence to the astonishing final lines.
Reese Witherspoon says about “The House in the Pines” by Ana Reyes, “This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller…It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Jan ’23 Pick)
“Agriculture is dangerous for the planet…we’ve been expanding our footprint tremendously in so many ways through deforestation, through utilization of land resources and soil fertility, by extracting water, and most recently the impacts of the food system by climate change. So, we cannot envisage the sustainable food security without ensuring protection of the planet.” Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet on Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs, Podcast Season 2, Episode 9.
“…the curriculum that is being taught in most school systems is still heavily geared towards the straight, white, male teen. And so when we now have the ability to put books into curriculum that tell other stories, that tell stories that are nonwhite, that tell stories that are non-heterosexual, they’re trying to take them out across the board because, you know, it’s like, oh, my God, how dangerous would it be if, you know, young, white teens had to actually learn about the other people who exist in society with them?” George M. Johnson about the memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue, which has become one of the most banned books in the U.S. (NPR aired on Morning Edition on Oct. 25, 2022.)
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