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Meet the Chemical Entanglements Speakers: Tyrone Hayes
/Chemical Entanglements byCSW’s Chemical Entanglements Symposium takes place on May 4 & 5. Registration is free and open to all! Tyrone Hayes is both a scientist and public health advocate par excellence. […]
Meet the Chemical Entanglements Speakers: Andrea Gore
/Chemical Entanglements byCSW’s Chemical Entanglements Symposium takes place on May 4 & 5. Registration is free and open to all! Andrea Gore is a Professor in the University of Texas’ College of […]
Meet the Chemical Entanglements Speakers: Martha Dina Arguëllo
/Chemical Entanglements byCSW’s Chemical Entanglements Symposium takes place on May 4 & 5. Registration is free and open to all! Martha Dina Arguëllo is driven, through her own life experiences as an […]
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter?
/Chemical Entanglements byby Rachel Connolly You may have heard the term “endocrine-disrupting chemicals” before, either on the Chemical Entanglements section of CSW’s website, or in the newspaper, or perhaps in a scientific […]
Chemical Warriors, Part 3: Over the Rainbow
/Chemical Entanglements byA Huey Helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam. Source: Wikimedia Commons. by Jana Gowan Environmental justice and health movements raise awareness of the insidious nature of everyday chemical exposures and […]
Florence Williams to deliver keynote address at Chemical Entanglements!
/Chemical Entanglements, News byThe Center for the Study of Women is delighted to be welcoming environmental journalist Florence Williams to UCLA to give the keynote address at the Chemical Entanglements symposium. Florence Williams’s […]
Communities First: A Profile of Janette Robinson Flint
/Chemical Entanglements, News byby Jana Gowan Black Women for Wellness (BWW) is a grassroots non-profit working throughout South LA. Their mission is clear: “Black Women For Wellness is committed to the health and […]
On marine debris as a form of gendered violence
/Chemical Entanglements byby Maya Weeks In the wake of the election, I have been thinking extensively and without desiring to about the men who wish us dead. I have been thinking about […]
Chemical Warriors, Part 2: The Human Experiments
/Chemical Entanglements byAre There Toxic Chemicals in Your Couch? 10 Things You Should Know About Flame Retardants
/Chemical Entanglements byby Rachel Connolly, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Center for the Study of Women This blog post synthesizes information from “Toxic by Design: Eliminating harmful flame retardant chemicals from our bodies, […]