ANNOUNCEMENT
The Nuzzo Letter has a new section titled “Dr. Nuzzo’s Research.” This new section is an archive of my research papers that have been published open access and are thus free to download and share. The archive includes about 30 of my published articles, including my first paper on men’s health, my critique of the UN and WHO, and the one time I published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.
Check out the whole archive, comment on articles that catch your fancy, and feel free to distribute the information as you like! I will continue to update this section of The Nuzzo Letter as more of my papers are published and are made available open access.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Boy wins girls HS track events in Maine; parents are both college professors
The College Fix
ASU campus that is 30% male says it will focus on ‘gender equity’ – for women
The College Fix
Feds investigate Harvard for allegedly discriminating against white, male applicants
The College Fix
Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine
City Journal
Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work
Unheard
Despite Talk of 2024 'Bro Vote', Young Men's Voting Participation Dropped Even Further Behind
Washington Initiative for Boys & Men
Brownstone Institute
When ideas become too dangerous to platform
Maryanne Demasi, reports
TED, a platform that claims to champion bold ideas, has censored University Professor Gigi Foster, who spoke out in defense of free speech and the right to dissent
One in Three
RUBBISH BIN
Women shouldn’t have to work the week of their period. Period.
The Independent (*see my brief commentary on this article here)
Female Physician Suicide Compared to the General Population
JAMA Psychiatry (*see my brief commentary on this article here - please note that my critique of this editorial is not attempting to minimise female physician suicide, it is attempting to show how the author minimised male physician suicide)
UN Women (*see my brief commentary on this article here)
Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health
The Lancet
From crisis to opportunity: a united response to Trump's attacks on climate action
The Lancet
Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire
Feminist Theory
Abstract: In the explosion of abortion bills post Dobbs, anti-abortion language identifies women according to their reproductive potential: ‘Woman' means [...] an individual with a uterus, regardless of any gender identity.’ According to this definition pregnancy or the potential for pregnancy define womanhood. Women without uteruses (cis and trans) are excluded, and trans men with uteruses are absorbed into the category of woman. This reproductive language, tethering transgender and reproductive politics, requires a reassessment of how pregnancy is theorised in feminist and transgender studies. In the following article, I argue that pregnancy is not to be defined by biological phenomena but instead as a genre of political, aesthetic, and affective experience and expectation. As a multidimensional genre of experience, rather than merely a biological datum, pregnancy can potentially establish a shared ground between trans and cis women. Pregnancy is an existential experience involving birth and becoming in a larger sense. We need a more all-encompassing notion of pregnancy, which is nourished by the capacious social world of conception and giving new life. Such a definition of pregnancy supports the goal of feminists, who resist the reduction of womanhood to reproductive function. For transgender studies, a wider understanding of pregnancy helps to build a transsexual theory of reproduction on feminist grounds.
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Thanks, James, I left a love note on the JAMA site that said that men account for 80% of suicides, and that it was unconscionable for a medical journal to ignore that fact.
Wonderful news on your research archive! Loved your comment on the ridiculous ‘period’ leave, also what gobbledegook passing as research on transfeminist pregnancy - absolute trash.