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Front Matter --Copyright page --Advance Praise for Scientists and Poets #Resist --Dedication --Acknowledgements --Science-Based Vulnerability --It Begins with Our words… --It Begins with Our Words /Daniela Elza --Rescue the Words /Norma C. Wilson --Evidence-Based /Jane Piirto --Notes from Indiana: The Crossroads of America, 2018 /Charnell Peters --Late Term /Jessica Smartt Gullion --Before Roe vs. Wade /Sarah Brown Weitzman --The Double Helix Is Not Two-Faced, It Is an Embrace /Elizabyth A. Hiscox --That Light Bill /Samantha Schaefer --#Resist --Kidnapping Children and Calves (of a Tender Age) /Lee Beavington --What Does Transgender Look Like? /Shalen Lowell --Woman with PCOS Lingers on the Possibilities of Science /Minadora Macheret --Half a Schroedinger /Karen L. Frank --Bubbles /Kris Harrington --The Ease and Difficulty of Hating and Loving One’s Self /Franklin K. R. Cline --Seven Thoughts about Butterflies /Ben Paulus --It Takes a Village /Michelle Bonczek Evory --The Capital of Failure /Scott M. Bade --Evidence --Field Notes & Marginalia /Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Shawn Wang --= /Terri Witek --America, My America /Sarah Brown Weitzman --Expressive Writing Paradigm: An Experiment in Righting /Jessica Moore --To Beat the Banned /Scott Wiggerman --Four Years /Jennifer K. Sweeney --While the Offering Stales in the Calm /Mark Kerstetter --Photosynthesis /Susan Cohen --Back Matter --Questions and Activities for Further Discussion --Notes on Contributors. Scientists 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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