S2E6: No More Throwing Pearls to Swine: A Conversation with Ugo Edu on Black Feminist Health Science Studies and Her Research

Published: May 1, 2021, midnight

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On this week’s episode of Foot On Yo’ Neck we will be discussing Black Feminist Health Science Studies with Ugo Edu, who we first encountered as our professor at UCLA last year. However, Ugo’s work and scholarship go so much further. Ugo’s pronouns are she/her/hers and lives in So Cal. Ugo is a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD from the joint Medical Anthropology program at University of California, San Francisco/UC Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality.  Ugo’s scholarship has a strong interdisciplinary approach to issues of aesthetics, affect, race, gender, body knowledge and modification, and social justice. Her work is situated at the intersections of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies. If you resonate with any part of our conversation and would like to further support Ugo’s work, be sure to visit ugofedu.com

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