public health

  • This Week in Trumplandia

    Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your communities,…

  • Fresh Comics #7: Giving Up The Ghost

    Fresh Comics #7: Giving Up The Ghost

    If you’ve never heard of Whit Taylor, then now is the perfect time to discover her. Ghost (2015) is her understated masterpiece, self-published just months ago. As I began reading the book, I thought I was in for a nice little story…

  • The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Gira Grant

    The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Gira Grant

    Melissa Gira Grant talks sex workers’ rights, labor politics, the novelty of women’s sexuality, and her book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.

  • Tweet for Public Health

    Social media is breaking new ground—it is now a tool that aids in the tracking down of public health crises. Researchers can use twitter to follow the spread of disease, at a much more efficient speed than formerly used surveillance…