Chemical Warriors, Part 3: Over the Rainbow
Environmental justice and health movements raise awareness of the insidious nature of everyday chemical exposures and their alarming consequences for the health of our bodies and natural environments.
Beauty Myths 2.0: Breaking Toxic Bonds and Creating Cross Racial Alliances
by Bhavna Shamasunder and Janette Robinson Flint This year at Nappy Wood, a hair expo for Black women, Black Women for Wellness hosted a table to talk with women about their hair stories and give women and...
Black Carbon, Health, and the Power of Women’s Leadership
Black Carbon (BC), a product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, doesn't just contribute to climate change--it also contributes to chemical exposure. Commonly referred to as “soot”, BC emissions are...
Asking the Right Questions: An Interview with Alison Johnson
A goal of the Chemical Entanglements blog is to tell stories that reveal how exposure is not something rare and exceptional, but something that happens to almost every person’s body every day, with a...
Chemical Entanglements: An Introduction
In the mid-20th Century, the mantra “better living through chemistry” emerged as a guiding principle for American industrial production and consumer culture. Decades on, alarming questions about the...
