Vanessa Lovato
@vanessalovato.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati 🌈 feminist philosophy of science, female health & sexuality✨ talk to me about periods 🩸
The dirty little secret, which is totally not a secret in any way at all, is that a phenomenon being a social construct does not undermine its reality in any way, shape, or form. Every 👏🏻 Social 👏🏻 Construct 👏🏻 Is 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 Real 👏🏻 Phenomenon 👏🏻 Experienced 👏🏻 By 👏🏻 Real 👏🏻 People.
The PSA is excited to welcome our 2025 Associate Directors: Ramy Amin (@ramyamin.bsky.social) and Vanessa Lovato (@vanessalovato.bsky.social)! They play a vital role in supporting the PSA’s operations, including the PSA Around the World 2025 conference, communications, and member engagement.
New article on menstrual pain and epistemic injustice (that happens to cite my work!) by Adriana Joanna Mickiewicz. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Menstrual pain and epistemic injustice - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
In this paper I analyze the phenomenon of normalizing and tabooing menstrual pain as an example of epistemic injustice. I refer to both types of epistemic injustice distinguished by Miranda Fricker: t...
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As with all great sci-fi, the premise of Severance is both fairly simple and absolutely dizzying in its multifaceted ramifications. I get into some of the philosophical questions raised by the show for @theneweuropean.bsky.social (no spoilers!) www.theneweuropean.co.uk/emily-herrin...
The secret at the heart of Severance
The high-concept streaming hit is really asking one question: who would we be without our trauma?
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NEW✨ In Menstrual Myth Busting @policypress.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social, Sally King interrogates the concept of the “hormonal female,” arguing that it's time we challenge inaccurate, harmful stereotypes around #women's reproductive #health that persist in medical and popular culture.
How poor menstrual health literacy disadvantages women - LSE Review of Books
Menstrual Myth Busting by Sally King interrogates the diagnostic label of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to expose sexist assumptions within medical research and practice. Introducing the book below, she challenges the concept of the "hormonal" premenstrual woman, arguing it's time we eradicate these harmful stereotypes that remain prevalent in medical and popular discourse. Menstrual Myth Busting: Menstrual Myth Busting by Sally King interrogates the diagnostic label of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to expose sexist assumptions within medical research and practice.
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Professors Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social) and Melissa Jacquart (@mjacquart.bsky.social) recently published a Cambridge Element titled ‘Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project’! It’s open access, check it out at this link! #philsky #Philsci
Public Engagement with Science
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Public Engagement with Science
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Hi Philosophers! I am happy to share that @vanessalovato.bsky.social and I are co-chairing a new affinity group at the Philosophy of Science Association on Values in and Public Engagement with Science. We are hoping to hold our first meeting virtually this Spring. (1/)
On the blog this week, Annalisa Coliva discusses hysteria in relation to hermeneutical injustice and why hysteria reveals a need to expand the concept of hermeneutical injustice #philsky http://imperfectcogn...
Want to know more about medical misogyny following today’s parliamentary report on gynaecological health? Sign up to my online talk in Jan! 👇🏽
Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan@drrageshri.bsky.social · 2y agoLooking forward to doing my first event for Seed Talks! I’ll be discussing Understanding Women’s Health: The pattern of misdiagnosis and neglect on January 15th. Join me for an online workshop - book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
Just opened my Spotify Wrapped and the first three songs are Kendrick verbally strangling Drake lol
spotify wrapped 916 BC you listened to that one guy with a lyre in the marketplace 403 times. honestly he's pretty weirded out. don't you have barley to thresh
Check out my new paper on self-diagnosis and autonomy in Philosophical Psychology: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Philosophical Psychology@journalphp.bsky.social · 2y agoLatest papers: Ilir Isufi argues that the recurring practice of self-diagnosis of psychiatric conditions on social media platforms poses a threat to personal autonomy understood as self-governance doi.org/10.1080/0951...
👉 Addressing the commercial determinants of menstrual health-a call to regulate menstrual product manufacturers 🗝️ "their products & commercial practices raise environmental, health, equity & societal issues, which warrant attn & regulation" ✍️ Céline Brassart Olsen academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Addressing the commercial determinants of menstrual health: a call to regulate menstrual product manufacturers
Abstract. Over the last two decades, menstrual health and hygiene have become increasingly common on the global health agenda. While governments and intern
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In 1985 Fausto-Sterling (@birdlady.bsky.social) wrote about the many problems with PMS research stating 'In the game of PMS the stakes are high'—it doesn’t seem like the research has improved much and others have argued recently that PMS is a myth. What should we make of it? Is PMS real?
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