Sexual Privacy in the AI Era
The introduction of new media technologies is typically accompanied by new concerns about privacy. The first US legal theories of privacy emerged in response to new developments in photography in …
Open Seminar on Data on Feminicides – GenTIC
The Gender and ICT research group, in collaboration with the Unitary Platform against Gender Violence (PUCVG), is pleased to invite you to a public seminar to share key findings from …
How Women Engineers Drive Safer Digital Worlds –
The occasion of International Women in Engineering Day (June 23rd) is commemorated through this short post, honouring and reflecting upon the contributions made by women not only in the IT …
HBCU Women’s Gender Strategies for Heterosexuality – Gender & Society
By Mercedez Dunn-Gallier At Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the emerging Black middle class is schooled in respectability. These are codes of conduct for “acceptable” behavior that HBCUs expect …
Protecting Medication Abortion: Stronger CA Priority Bill AB 260 Ensures Californians Have Access to Safe Abortions, Regardless of Federal Threats to Mifepristone
Medical abortion through drugs like mifepristone has been proven to be a safe form of reproductive health care for the past 25 years. Despite this overwhelming evidence, mifepristone and other …
Saying ‘no’ in a world that doesn’t listen
“Girls are raped all the time.”“Girls as young as 10 are raped in the community.”“Girls get pregnant as early as 13 – mostly due to rape.” These were the matter-of-fact …
Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence is a Labor Issue
The history of queer and trans politics is often told through the history of bars, cafes, and restaurants. Whether it’s the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 in New York City, the …
NASA’s SPHEREx Captures Comet 3I/ATLAS, a Visitor From Beyond the Solar System
Science News from research organizations Date: September 2, 2025 Source: NASA Summary: NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and …
The best new science fiction books of September 2025 by authors including Cixin Liu and John Scalzi
In Mason Coile’s Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff There are some sci-fi heavy hitters with new novels out this month, from Cixin Liu and Stephen Baxter to …
Has a huge blob of dark matter been found in our galactic neighborhood?
If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Milky Way’s hidden architecture