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Beauty Myths 2.0: Breaking Toxic Bonds and Creating Cross Racial Alliances

December 9, 2016/2 Comments/Chemical Entanglements by

by Bhavna Shamasunder and Janette Robinson Flint This year at Nappy Wood, a hair expo for Black women, Black Women for Wellness hosted a table to talk with women about […]

Chemical Warriors, Part 1: An Origin Story

November 30, 2016/3 Comments/Chemical Entanglements by

by Jana Gowan Environmental justice and health movements raise awareness of the insidious nature of everyday chemical exposures and the alarming consequences for the health of our bodies and natural […]

Black Carbon, Health, and the Power of Women’s Leadership

November 9, 2016/Chemical Entanglements by

by Kali Basman Black Carbon (BC), a product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, doesn’t just contribute to climate change–it also contributes to chemical exposure.[1] Commonly referred to as “soot”, […]

The Endocrine Disruptors Action Group releases “Toxic by Design”

November 4, 2016/Chemical Entanglements by

The Endocrine Disruptors Action Group, a coalition of researchers based in Canada, who are concerned about the presence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in our environment and the effect of these chemicals […]

Film review: The Human Experiment (2013)

October 31, 2016/Chemical Entanglements by

review by Jana Gowan The Human Experiment (2013) Dir. by Don Hardy, Jr. and Dana Nachman Written by Dana Nachman Narrated by Sean Penn The 2013 documentary, The Human Experiment, […]

Asking the Right Questions: An Interview with Alison Johnson

October 17, 2016/Chemical Entanglements by

One of our goals with the Chemical Entanglements blog is to tell stories that reveal how exposure is not something rare and exceptional, but something that happens to almost every […]

Chemical Entanglements: An Introduction

October 10, 2016/Chemical Entanglements by

In the mid-20th Century, the mantra “better living through chemistry” emerged as a guiding principle for American industrial production and consumer culture. Decades on, alarming questions about the results of […]

CSW receives multiple grants in support of Chemical Entanglements!

June 8, 2016/Chemical Entanglements, Events, News by

CSW has received multiple grants to support the Chemical Entanglements multi-component research project. The UCLA Council on Research awarded a Trans-disciplinary Seed Grant to the “Gendered Sentinels of Environmental Impacts” research […]

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