“A Hard Town By The Sea” Feminist of Color Science, Health, Medicine, and Technology Studies in Baltimore Workshop

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

In this workshop, we collaborate to build tools for engaging literature and creative practice as a critical way to interrogate how a feminist of color science, health, medicine, technology studies framework may be useful interrogating how medical abuse on communities of color provide complex ethical problems. Access to medical histories of vulnerable communities for research demonstrates how the private bodies of Black women become public property. This workshop is developed to build tools, a Black feminist bioethics, for interrogating the abuses of medical and scientific institutions by putting the lives of women of color at the center of such interrogations.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME TWO: Arts and Culture: How are social media, visual culture, and social practice art changing how we view, engage and transform the world?

Moderator

• Bettina A. Judd, The University of Washington

Presenter

• Diana Louis, Indiana University