Loi contre l’homosexualité au Sénégal : « Les justifications historique et sanitaire de la loi sont infondées » TRIBUNE. La politique répressive sur laquelle s’engage le gouvernement ne pourra que nuire à la santé publique exceptionnelle du pays, risquant d’anéantir des décennies de progrès, déplore l’anthropol...

Here is a gift link for my latest in Le Monde. (If anyone can get a gift link in English, that would be awesome!)

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'Senegal's anti-homosexuality law relies on historical and health claims that are false' OP-ED. The government's repressive policy can only undermine the country's outstanding public health record, threatening to erase decades of progress, warns anthropologist Richard Powis.

Here it is in English: www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Loi contre l’homosexualité au Sénégal : « Les justifications historique et sanitaire de la loi sont infondées » TRIBUNE. La politique répressive sur laquelle s’engage le gouvernement ne pourra que nuire à la santé publique exceptionnelle du pays, risquant d’anéantir des décennies de progrès, déplore l’anthropol...

Today, I told Le Monde why Senegal’s new anti-homosexuality law is not just bad for public health, it’s out of step with the country’s historic reputation for exceptionalism. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

This baffling syndrome makes fathers feel pregnant Couvade syndrome is changing how scientists think about the role of men in childbearing.

The very first lecture I ever heard in a cultural anthropology class was about "couvade," and I just seized onto it and never let go. Here I am, 16 years later, talking about it for BBC.

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As it turns out, I was decidedly wrong about the topography of the Upside Down

“The Upside Down” presupposes a flat earth. Stranger Things should have called it The Inside Out. In this essay…

Book cover for Emily Yates-Doerr’s book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.’

Huge congrats to @eyatesd.bsky.social for winning the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for her book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

Thanks to Nathan Fielder, I now hum Evanescence whenever I see two pilots walking together

We're all just dogs wearing shock collars in the background of God's Twitch stream.

Yesterday, my cat kicked a turd out of the litterbox and the robovac came and ate it up, so I'm kinda not worried about Skynet just yet

Anyway, I just had the silly thought that I was too "old" for a laptop, which is of course ridiculous. I just don't see the need for one anymore, and I find that sort of interesting--like, why?

This relatively recent distinction between home and work (or hobby and rest) is a deliberate resistance against the status quo of my PhD life, COVID lockdown, and my 30s--all of which blended everything together, and my work *was* my identity. I had fun, but god, that life was so toxic.

I switched from a desktop computer to a laptop in 2003 and earlier this year I've made the switch back to a desktop. It's been very freeing, but I'm not sure why. Maybe because I want work to stay at work, and studio to stay in studio, but even this is fairly new in my life (since 2021).

(and quite a few more that I assumed were on Bluesky but aren’t?)

Always a joy to see my Women’s Health students do class presentations on books by my colleagues like @kateclancy.bsky.social and @ratnagiri77.bsky.social

#AbolishBorders

Did people say "ess and tee ess?"

An excerpt of text from Jasanoff's "States of Knowledge" in which she refers to "the emerging field of science and technology studies (S&TS)..."

Well, this was jarring to read

Trump’s stupid hand covered in bad makeup, floating in a black void

This would go hard as an album cover

Wow I’ve always wondered what the early days of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would look like if we had social media and AI and it is worse than I imagined

Good news! The intro article for our special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is now Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Medical Anthropology SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology

The full special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is out now in #MedicalAnthropology! Both the introduction and my article are OA, but don't hesitate to reach out (email or DM) if you need access to the other articles.

Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

She applyin’ on my anthropology until I conference #sfaa2025

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Loool same!

In 👏 this 👏 house 👏 we 👏 stan 👏 @jamieloftus.bsky.social

Definitely seems like something I would do :/

An event in my Outlook calendar that simply says “Something with someone but I can’t remember” and I don’t even remember putting it in my calendar!

Wtf, I don’t even remember putting this in my calendar. Was this you? Do we have a meeting???

Over-looked spaces: theorizing surveillance care in reproductive health At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health.” This introduction to o...

New article just dropped with @adriennestrong.bsky.social