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    Archive for month: October, 2017

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    Femininity, Hair Relaxers, and the Impact of Beauty Standards on Black Women’s Health

    October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Amanda Wilcox The idea of “[insert name] with the good hair” goes far beyond a cheeky line in Beyoncé’s “Sorry.” Rather, it’s a pervasive and systematic idea that has […]

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    On Illusions and Disillusionment

    October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Tiffany Uribe If you’re here on this blog right now, chances are that you have some interest in the safety of our every day products, chemical sensitivity, or reproductive/ […]

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    On Transparency

    October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Ankita Nair Five weeks before I started college, I walked into a hair salon with the intention of getting a keratin treatment. For years, I’d struggled to maintain my […]

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    Unregulated Chemicals in Fragrance Ingredients

    October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    By Nataliya Karashchuk In a world of clean linen and lavender scents, we are surrounded by a bubble of fragrances every single day. Smells shape our world in ways we […]

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    Does Natural Mean Safe?

    October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Alexis Elliott We are living in the age of chemicals. Harmful chemicals appear everywhere, from our cleaning supplies to our cosmetics. As more information is being collected about how […]

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    Precaution, Policy, and Profit: Exploring US Regulations for Chemicals

    October 26, 2017/0 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Vivian Anigbogu Chemicals are all around us—they are used to make our furniture fire-resistant, they are used to make our laundry detergent, and they even make up the interior […]

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    Environmental Justice and Farm Workers’ Health

    October 26, 2017/5 Comments/in CE Student Group Chemical Entanglements Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    By Alexandra Navarro Ever since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, which challenged the agricultural industry’s use of pesticides like DDT, the fight for environmental justice surrounding agriculture seemed to have […]

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    Jaguar Flowers: Strength in Femininity

    October 11, 2017/0 Comments/in Awardee Research Recipients Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    By Paula Rodriguez-Diaz Leadership is a quality that we all have, yet many women have been conditioned to believe that they are not capable of leading and of having a […]

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    The Role of Women in the Lives of High Achieving Black and Latino Men

    October 6, 2017/0 Comments/in Awardee Research Awards Recipients Research by UCLA Students /by aapolloni

    by Bianca N. Haro Positionality: A Mujer among Men of Color I am a light-skinned Mexicana/Latina first-generation mujer, and I identify as a Chicana born and raised in Southeast San […]

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    Imagining Utopias: Toward Latinx Feminist Thought

    October 6, 2017/1 Comment/in Awardee Research Awards /by aapolloni

    by Rocío R. García What does it mean to disappear—from the pages of history, from your own humanity, from systems of oppression? For people of Latin American descent throughout the […]

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