Framing the discussion of microorganisms as a facet of social equity in human health

What do “microbes” have to do with social equity? These microorganisms are integral to our health, that of our natural environment, and even the “health” of the environments we build. The loss, gain, and retention of microorganisms—their flow between humans and the environment—can greatly impact our health. It is well-known that inequalities in access to perinatal care, healthy foods, quality housing, and the natural environment can create and arise from social inequality. Here, we focus on the argument that access to beneficial microorganisms is a facet of public health, and health inequality may be compounded by inequitable microbial exposure

Stop Cheering for Cheer: Gender, Class, and Conservative American Culture

65 pagesDepictions of cheerleading as the essence of normative, American femininity in film have created fecund ground for reality and docuseries productions about the cheer world. Netflix’s Cheer (2020) has been lauded for overturning archetypal depictions of cherry-pie, white, feminine, middle-class, heterosexual cheerleaders in favor of portraying the individual histories of diverse cast members. This project works to fill in the gap in the glowing reception Cheer has generated by analyzing the formal devices deployed by the show to render reductive depictions of women and working-class people. I pull from a variety of theoretical frameworks to deconstruct the show’s formal techniques and revivify the nuanced performance of women characters representing their lived experience of oppression

Framing the discussion of microorganisms as a facet of social equity in human health.

What do "microbes" have to do with social equity? These microorganisms are integral to our health, that of our natural environment, and even the "health" of the environments we build. The loss, gain, and retention of microorganisms-their flow between humans and the environment-can greatly impact our health. It is well-known that inequalities in access to perinatal care, healthy foods, quality housing, and the natural environment can create and arise from social inequality. Here, we focus on the argument that access to beneficial microorganisms is a facet of public health, and health inequality may be compounded by inequitable microbial exposure