Reflections on technological tools for pandemic control, their risks
Far from defending the abolition of these technological tools, foster public debate in order to promote their improvement and adequacy.
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Category Archives: Opinion
Fever dreaming of America
American Pie?
From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.
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Celebrate queer pride, abolish the police
The function of the police has always been rooted in maintaining social control. There can be no queer pride without queer protest.
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UC Berkeley administration: If we tell you we’re LGBTQIA+, we want resources in return
What was the point of telling Berkeley that I was queer if the administration wasn’t going to utilize the sensitive information I had given them to help me?
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DACA will not suffice to protect immigrants
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Undocumented immigrants deserve pathway to citizenship, legal protections
With DACA’s survival, the nation might turn its attention elsewhere, thinking immigrants safe. That would be a disastrous mistake.
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Mama’s museum
Stories from the Outside
I didn’t realize how these different personal artistic expressions captured and reflected rapidly evolving political, social and economic climates.
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Flirting with my friends
Sex on Tuesday
Eroticism and friendship aren’t mutually exclusive, and I feel erotically toward some of my favorite friends. Even those I don’t want to have sex with.
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Anti-racism in physics requires more than incremental action
We need not wonder what we should do to remedy the inequities in our field; we must follow the lead of Black academics who have already done this work.
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Civic engagement leave: Democracy takes time, employers can provide it
By bringing more people into the civic sphere, faith can be restored in our political system and both employees and employers can benefit.
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Pop songs from our past selves
Love in Conversation
Music is a vessel to hold our experiences, our many selves. It gives us words (and a drumbeat) for every moment of euphoria and every strain of heartbreak.
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