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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

—Michael A. Olivas
DACA has been successful and transformational and President Trump’s and AG Jeff Sessions’s indication that they may end or phase out the program throws cold water on the reasonable hopes of DREAMers.
Education

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

—Jennifer Reich
At the beginning of each school year, children around the country will be asked to provide school supplies alongside evidence that they have received all recommended vaccinations against childhood vaccine-preventable diseases. Although these requirements have become increasingly contentious, but were, in fact, created only in the last 35-50 years in an effort to create greater access to care for the most children in need.
Sociology

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Myrtle Witbooi discusses Domestic Workers of World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights, and how it can help you better understand the global, domestic workers movement.
New York

Our City, Our Stories

New York City’s remarkable history, intimate stories, and struggles.
Current Events

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

A comprehensive list of all of our best feminist literature representing women and gender equality. From the Women’s Rights Movement to abortion rights to the early suffragists of New York City, this list covers all aspects of the female fight for equality.

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

May 15, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.

From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

April 20, 2017 nyupressblog 1

—Britt Rusert
An abolitionist science moves beyond generic defenses of science in an age of populist skepticism and backlash, requiring an evaluation of different types of science and an excavation of their specific relationships to forms of power and exploitation.

Don’t Bring a Test Tube to a Gun Fight

April 19, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Antony Alumkal
The March for Science is a response to politically motivated efforts to undermine scientific research and ignore scientific evidence when crafting public policy. Science is under increasingly heavy political fire, and the March for Science indicates that scientists plan to fire back.

Available, Accessible, Usable

March 28, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
Creating accessible spaces, technologies, and content often entails augmenting, altering, or otherwise working around the assumption that all users will have a “normal” able body.

More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji

September 7, 2016 nyupressblog 1

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
The revised accessibility symbol emoji introduced in iOS 10 is not the familiar static wheelchair symbol. Its inclusion demonstrates how art and activism can influence culture, industries, and policies with major implications for access and participation in broader society.

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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Our City, Our Stories

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

From The Square

NYU Press Blog

Science & Technology

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

Don’t Bring a Test Tube to a Gun Fight

Available, Accessible, Usable

More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji

Zika and the Limits of Biomedical Fixes

On Biomedicine and its Limits: An Interview with Joseph E. Davis

Yelp for Peeple and the Right to be Forgotten