Exam 5: Science, Technology, and the Digital World

Why is Uber inherently restrictive in who can access and use it as employment and/or transportation?

"As the college-educated daughters of marginalized families, I posit that Latina physicians are '_______' who are now in a position to challenge how knowledge is produced in medicine, but they are also repeatedly undermined by various actors in their jobs."

What are hardships the doctors face due to their ethnicity according to the article?

What led to the identification of office work-related injuries such as repetitive strain injury?

What does Fitz want queer Black creators to do to change the online landscape?

Why can't Quy and Tam understand immerser technology on their own?

What is CRISPR?

How does the author argue that gender affected the portrayal of Aghdam after the shooting?

The female analogy to spermatogenesis is _____________.

More importantly, these arguments are ultimately rooted in eugenic thinking, one that grounds the "causation" of our deviation from the norm in our bodies. Arguing that our biology "causes" our differences reflects arguments eugenicists provided to justify their racist and ableist approach to medicine and to their supposed "cures" for our "deviance." It offers a narrative whereby gender non-conformity can be understood as an anatomical pathology or a psychiatric disorder (both rooted in biology), and ultimately reinforces who and what subject positions are _______. It is these biological explanations that continue to pathologize not only gender transgressors, but also people of color and people with disabilities, particularly in practices of sterilization. When we rely on biology and genetics to legitimize trans existence-rather than challenging normative and coercive gender expectations more broadly-we fail to distance ourselves from the dangerous rhetoric of degeneracy.

"Most ships those days were _______-you'd have thought Longevity's ex-masters would have been unhappy about the station's independence, but now that the war was over Longevity was a tidy source of profit. The ships came; and disgorged a steady stream of tourists-their eyes too round and straight, their jaws too square; their faces an unhealthy shade of pink, like undercooked meat left too long in the sun. They walked with the easy confidence of people with immersers: pausing to admire the suggested highlights for a second or so before moving on to the transport station, where they haggled in schoolbook Rong for a ride to their recommended hotels- a sickeningly familiar ballet Quy had been seeing most of her life, a unison of foreigners descending on the station like a plague of centipedes or leeches."

What is the risk of substituting technology for lost body function?

Why does Indian agriculture have a global significance?

Who is Quy?

The majority of the doctors studied were of what origin?

"While rideshare companies have indeed changed the transportation industry, our findings suggest that they may [reinforce] rather than _______ social hierarchies based on gender, race and class found in traditional models of entrepreneurship and employment generation."

Which applies to the definition of eugenics?

"Let's be real: I have [created] a lot of very suggestive posts, but I always censored and tried to be respectful of IG's community guidelines even when I didn't agree with them. I tried to make sure my _______ (even though who is IG to tell me my _______ are female or male?) didn't show. I never showed any sexual or violent activity. My full bare ass has never been shown, even when Justin Bieber made it cool to do that on IG. I didn't do more than what a white boy or girl influencer has, but IG automatically [deems] my Black queer body [is] wrong."

Fitz argues that Instagram does not flag the posts of what population nearly as often as they flag the content by queer Black creators?

What model does Martin propose as offering a better model for discussing human reproduction that works against more traditional and male-centric, traditional models?