Author Archive for: joycelynliu
Entries by joycelynliu
Brain, Blood, and Self-Report: Gaining Insights into Stress-Related Cancer Outcomes in Female Breast Cancer Survivors
By Carrianne Leschak Beyond self-reports If you ask someone to predict how they will feel in response to a certain event, or to predict what they will do in a […]
Portland Protests For Black Lives: An On-the-Ground Report (July 24, 2020)
By J. Davis What follows is an interview I conducted with my friend and activist, MK, about their experience being shot by the Portland Police at a non-violent protest this […]
Infertility-Related Stigma is a Public Health Issue
By Marta Bornstein The experience of infertility is often over-looked within public health literature, despite being a common experience for individuals and couples worldwide., Infertility comes with a range of […]
Reducing Stigma Toward Black Women Who Vary in Body Size
by Jessica Shropshire Black women are at an increased risk for a variety of physical health outcomes. One out of four middle-aged Black women has diabetes and rates of death […]
Learning to Read the Room: A Call to Review Feminist Research Methods Post FOSTA-SESTA
By Elizabeth Dayton In May of 2019, current and former sex workers gathered among peers, friends, and allies for the biennial Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival in San Francisco. […]
Glimpses of Re-existence from a Cambodian Donji
By Lara K. Schubert When I visited the Buddhist Center to get permission to conduct interviews and participant observations, a female renunciant met me and ushered me to one of […]
Mammogram Screening Among Arab American Women
By Sarah Alkhaifi-Gonzalez. RN. WHNP. PhDc. Since 2007, I have been working as a nurse and women’s health nurse practitioner in Saudi Arabia and the United States. This experience has […]
Sexual Harassment and Occupational Segregation: The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Women in the Trades
By Lia Cohen Although women make up almost half of the workforce, they make significantly less money than their male counterparts in nearly all fields. Research suggests that more than […]
“When the buses stop, you stop”: Women commuters and public transportation in Bengaluru city, India
by Jananie Kalyanaraman Transport and mobility systems in cities across India have been critiqued for their top-down approach, which overlooks the ways in which transport systems can impact gender relations […]
