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Book SynopsisScientists and Poets #Resist is a collection of creative nonfiction, personal narrative, and poetry. This volume is a conversation between poets and scientists and a dialogue between art and science. The authors are poets, scientists, and poet-scientists who use the seven words—"vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—banned by the Trump administration in official Health and Human Service documents in December 2017 in their contributions. The contributors use the seven words to discuss their work, reactions to their work, and the creative environment in which they work. The resulting collection is an act of resistance, a political commentary, a conversation between scientists and poets, and a dialogue of collective voices using banned words as a rallying cry—Scientists and Poets #Resist—a warning that censorship is an issue connecting us all, an issue requiring a collective aesthetic response. This book can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in a range of courses in the social sciences, education, and creative writing.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Science-Based Vulnerability Part 1 1. It Begins with Our Words Daniela Elza 2. Rescue the Words Norma Wilson 3. Evidence-Based Jane Piirto 4. Notes from Indiana: The Crossroads of America, 2018 Charnell Peters 5. Late Term Jessica Smartt Gullion 6. Before Roe vs. Wade Sarah Brown Weitzman 7. The Double Helix Is Not Two-Faced, It Is an Embrace Elizabyth A. Hiscox 8. That Light Bill Samantha Schaefer Part 2 9. Kidnapping Children and Calves (of a Tender Age) Lee Beavington 10. What Does Transgender Look Like? Shalen Lowell 11. Woman with PCOS Lingers on the Possibilities of Science Minadora Macheret 12. Half a Schroedinger Karen L. Frank 13. Bubbles Kris Harrington 14. The Ease and Difficulty of Hating and Loving One’s Self Franklin K. R. Cline 15. Seven Thoughts about Butterflies Ben Paulus 16. It Takes a Village Michelle Bonczek Evory 17. The Capital of Failure Scott M. Bade Part 3 18. Field Notes & Marginalia Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Shawn Wang 19. = Terri Witek 20. America, My America Sarah Brown Weitzman 21. Expressive Writing Paradigm: An Experiment in Righting Jessica Moore 22. To Beat the Banned Scott Wiggerman 23. Four Years Jennifer K. Sweeney 24. While the Offering Stales in the Calm Mark Kerstetter 25. Photosynthesis Susan Cohen Questions and Activities for Further Discussion Notes on Contributors
