Doctoral candidate Tatiana Height and PhD student Enjoli Hall discuss how urban planning can better serve Black communities.

Professionals discuss the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act and the ability of algorithms to provide evidence in courts.

This Vox article explores the urban farming movement, including the environmental and social effects.

A college computer science student has used coding to create resources related to Black Lives Matter.

This NYT article describes a large issue in public health and medicine: ignoring women's health issues. It uses both anecdotal evidence and important stats to describe why the problem exists and how current doctors are trying to fix it.

Eight women share their stories about discrimination within the healthcare system.

Ramsden reports on the mental health of LGBT people during the lockdown in the United Kingdom

Written by Cigna, here is a list of health disparities faced by LGBTQ individuals and explanations as to how those disparities may arise. Cigna also provides ways in which doctors can provide the support and care needed to LGBTQ patients.

From the American Psychological Association, this article defines socioeconomic status, its relation to race, and how it affects societies' physical and psychological health.

A new legislation called the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act has been proposed. If approved, racism would be acknowledged as a public health crisis on the federal level and new programs would be created with an aim at breaking down structural racism in areas including healthcare and law enforcement.

A short biography on David Blackwell, a Black statistician who faced discrimination throughout his life.

This blog post discusses how racism influences statistics and how historic statisticians made their discoveries motivated by an interest in eugenics.

This article recognizes racial disparity in a women’s health issue caused by gas flares.

Alex Johnson writes about the human-made divisions between "natural" and "unnatural," as well as how these arbitrary categories affect people and biological studies.

The water crisis as experienced by Black, Latinx, and Native Americans is shown in this article.

Harvey covers a study which finds a correlated increase in gender-based violence with increases in environmental pressures.

This webpage highlights the importance of women in STEM by explaining the crucial role of Rosalind Franklin played in the discovery of DNA.

This is an analysis paper published on the CDC's webpage analyzing melanoma incidence and 5-year survival rates of non-Hispanic Black US- populations. Material provides resultant data and draws conclusions that healthcare providers need improved education on incidence of melanoma in non-Hispanic Black populations.

This research article provides examples of racial disparities in women's health. The article also breaks down how patients, physicians, and the healthcare system contribute to these differences as well as provides potential solutions to reduce these disparities.

Strucutral racism has affected U.S. medical education, and its consequences are still experienced today.

The New York Times published this article expresses the fear immigrants have when seeking medical attention for COVID-19. They question if going to the hospital will affect their chances at becoming US citizens. ?

Many feel that medical schools don't properly address health disparities that affect the LGBTQ+ communities. NPR provides background on current medical school practices, as well as pressure for curriculum changes to address these issues.

This Washington post article discusses the history of medicine and how in coincided with slavery. Bachynski explains how the origins of medical practices still influence patients today and poses questions to doctors about what can be changed to combat the issue. ?

This emergency physician speaks about medical education and diversity consulting.

This article highlights some of the main health disparities among the LGBTQ+ community as well as discusses the impacts those disparities have on them. ?

A short feature of Ebonie Woolcock, a Harvard Medical School instructor, speaks about her personal fight for equitable health care.

Learn about healthcare workers across the country protesting for Black Lives Matter during the pandemic.

This article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives a basic overview of the socioecological model and how it is utilized for prevention efforts.

A paper discussing the experiences of gender/sexual minorities in the astronomy and planetary science workplace.

This article biographies four queer figures in astronomy for LGBT STEM day 2019.

Astronomy is one of the least diverse scientific fields. However, there are those in the Astronomy community pushing for diversity, through programs supporting and recruiting underrepresented populations.

Bill Nye and Lelan Melvin talk about their varying experiences as people and scientists in society.

Apple uses machine learning for their autocorrect/suggestions, and their machine learning decided that a white male was the definition of a ceo, cfo, doctor, and other top positions. Their second option was a white female.

Wilson reports on a change that Nextdoor implemented in their user interface, to reduce racial profiling. Wilson further explains where the rationale for this decision came from, and the impact that it has had.

Learn about the history of computer science and how the field has become so unwelcoming to women.

This article, from Reuters, gives the example of bias in AI that Amazon uses for recruiting and how it specifically affects female candidates. The article explains multiple ways that this software has been shown to be biased and enumerates other companies that seem to be using similar algorithms.

In this piece, Querini decribes "Inclusive Design," or how to design with different people in mind. The author further describes how one can design for gender and what considerations to take into account when designing a system or user interface.

This article reports on an incident where a husband and wife were provided with vastly different credit lines from the Apple Card algorithm, despite sharing many of the same assets and filing taxes jointly. The article also explains the response from Apple, Goldman Sachs, and other involved actors.

This article describes criticisms of a recent Stanford study that attempted to guess whether individuals were gay or straight based on their faces, using AI. The article further explains the response of a co-author of the study and his motivations for publishing the study.

This study is about chickens taking on the physiological behaviors of roosters, having everything except being able to lay eggs. They crow, have the same feathers as roosters, have spurs, and other physiological factors because they can develop male sex organs if their left ovary gets damaged or atrophies.

This video, mentioned in the previous resource ("Is Ecofeminism still relevant?"), addresses the ways climate change is experience by women, as well as the way women's liberation can contribute to environmental progress.

This Q&A with Alex Johnson, a conservationist at the University of Montana, describes queer ecology and its purpose.

Sinclair is a NFT artist who uses the platform Web 3 to display and sell her work.

The Healthy People framework demonstrates the importance of the accessibility of health-related information.

Stephon Alexander describes a parallel between jazz music and the functioning of our universe.

The page from the CDC website defines terminology commonly used to describe sexuality and gender. This list does not include all terms associated with sexuality and gender, but it covers the basic terms everyone should know.

This TED Talk talks about gender disparities in health with the lens of research and pharmaceuticals. Key points of the discussion include how health issues specific to females are not always studied/tested on women, and how certain drugs created have ill-averse effects on certain genders compared to others.

Thomas Frieden writes in the American Journal of Public Health to discuss the Health Impact Pyramid: what is it and how does it work? Frieden defines each level of the pyramid provides examples of prevention strategies that would fall into each one.

Read this study on the health system and how they treat non-binary and transgender individuals, who often have unique needs for hormones, surgery, and mental health services.

This article remind us that child bearing is not limited to heterosexual, cis-gendered women. It can be endured by many others and should be supported and respected.

On this episode of "Show Me The Science," scientists discuss the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of racism.

Though we assume mathematics is unbiased, its applications to the real world can carry bias. In this article, Cleather explains how statistical concepts have been used to further eugenics.

Based on a survey conducted in 28 European countries, the following dataset illuminates conceptions of harassment based on sexual orientation. Work through the data with Geeta in order to form basic visualizations from the survey results.

Hunt's article points out the way marketing places the responsibility of acting sustainable on women, offering them eco-friendly options in the domestic sphere.

This article discusses a study from the University of Washington which finds that race is the most influential factor on exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a key air pollutant.

Focusing on sexuality in evolution and animal biology, this New York Times article discusses a study from Yale and UC Berkeley researchers who seek to change the heteronormative assumptions of environmental science.

Using Flint, Michigan as a preliminary case study, this article describes water issues in relation to race throughout America

Focused on the country of Kirobas, this eight-minute video addresses the way climate change disproportionately affects island communities.

The podcast series centers on the anti-racism and health equity efforts in the United States, as well as the role of Black physicians in this time of unrest.

Medical students wrote a letter to the editor of the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges discussing the importance of gaining trust of Native American communities. This short letter allows broad discussion about how to gain trust of underserved communities.

This article explains disparities in HIV treatment and research. It provides inferences for why HIV disproportionately affects gay men and minorities.

Many clinical trials are composed of 80 to 90% white patients, despite almost 40% of all Americans belonging to minority groups. This article explains the importance of diversity in clinical drug trials.

1 in 10 US citizens have limited English proficiency. This NPR article discusses the necessity and lack of language translators in healthcare.

This Harvard panel discusses the importance of identifying differences between men and women when conducting disease research. This resource is pivotal to the understanding of the need for gender representation in clinical trials.

This source is about non-binary individuals, and how the gender spectrum is not binary, instead following a bimodal distribution with higher probability of being on one side or the other. This source talks about the genetic factors of being intersex, the physiological factors that show gender and how is a spectrum, and ends with examples in the animal kingdom that don't follow the gender binary or can become transgender.

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer presents during TEDWomen 2010 discussing the harmful effects of hormone altering chemicals on our children. She invites University of California, Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes to explain how the pesticide Atrazine has been linked to developing breast cancer and male sterilization, especially among men working in agriculture who tend to be Mexican American.

Gender roles have been defined by women staying at home to take care of chores and the children, while men particpate in the workforce acting as the family breadwinner. This article from Globalnews discusses how these traditional gender roles are forced to be disturbed due to conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nick McIntosh explains his desire to help people by giving blood but how Australia has bans on gay and bisexual men giving blood.

This page on the CDC's website is an all-encompassing collection of health related issues and topics that impact the LGBTQ+ community. Students can explore a wide range of topics and be exposed to all facets of LGBTQ+ health.

Women have been silence for centuries and in light of movements such as #MeToo, this article from The Guardian breaks the silence as it discusses discrimantory practices against women in healthcare. It brings up disparities in female physicians as well as women not being properly treated due to assumptions that they are hypochondriacs.

Most people know about NASA’s missions to Mars, Curiosity among them. Less talked about are efforts by non-Western countries lead by non-White scientists.

Resistance against the telescope is not about stalling "science," but protecting a sacred site.

Native Hawaiians have consistently protested against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, at its site on Mauna Kea.

A white paper discussing the problems with gender-related studies in astronomy.

Cirillo et al. explain how current biomedical technologies that use AI models to tailor treatments can be biased based on gender. The paper outlines how current algorithms do not consider how gender plays into death and disease and in doing so, produces sub-optimal results. The paper outlines in depth current technologies and their effect on women, both positive and negative.

Listen to understand how systems can be changed for sustainable equity, as well as to learn about the organization CSforAll.

Krzyminski delves into the question of how to construct gender selection forms so that they are both inclusive and useful for the people collecting the data. The author provides four examples of gender selection forms and how they perform within each of these criteria.

This article explains how Artificial Intelligence algorithms can be biased against the LGBTQ+ community. The article touches on censorship of language used by this community, how AI can learn offensive languages and biases that it can then replicate, and many other issues.

This article describes how Nextdoor reduces racial profiling through a change in their UX and how the same principle can be applied throughout UX design. The article further explains similar UX decisions, spearheaded by social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt.

Jean Ryoo, a researcher at the UCLA Computer Science Equity Project, speaks about equitable access to Computer Science Education.

Get inspired to create and have an impact on the world during our digital revolution.

This article recognizes examples of gender inequity in climate solutions before explaining how women are involved in environmental progress.

This article shares the impact of conservation projects on international Native communities. The author focuses on the case study on the Central Kalahari game park in Botswana

Jon Eagle Sr., a preservation officer for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, wrote this letter on the U.S. government’s treatment of tribal land.

A doctor may unknowingly base a diagnosis or treatment on the racially-biased output of an AI system.

Data visualization laid the foundation for social reform in 19th-century Britain.

A museum exhibit demonstrates an intersection of art and science, centering Blackness in "design future thinking."

Individuals living in low-income rural communities do not have access to safe drinking water and must rely on bottled water. This article explains how the need for water has been exacerbated due to the global pandemic and why it needs to be addressed.

This article provides reasons for why individuals may develop eating disorders and explains how these reasons may occur more often for individuals belonging to the LGBTQ+ community.

Molly is a hermaphrodite dog, meaning that she has both male and female reproductive organs.

Published in 2018, this NPR article discusses a study by epidemiologist Rebecca Kehm about the effects of socioeconomic factors on childhood cancer survival.

This article brings attention to the health disparity found in maternal rates in the United States. The US has the highest maternal mortality of developed countries, and racial disparities are even more drastic with the United States. Doctors and public health officials explain risk factors, causes of death, and possible solutions to the crisis.

University of Southern California Professor David Armstrong speaks about amputations caused by diabetes, what Armstrong calls “an epidemic within an epidemic,” in this CNN article. The article also includes a short video on diabetes and its symptoms.

This dataset allows students to build a simple linear model to describe the relationship between year and percentage of female TIME cover photos.

Using a dataset called "Firsts" from Kaggle, this Jupyter notebook shows a basic statistical approach to learn more about firsts contributed to our society by African Americans.

This article describes statistics related to unequal access to clean energy, as described in a study by researchers at UC Berkeley

A three-minute video which explains the origins of environmental justice issues and provides an overview of the subject.

Harvard Professor Tiya Miles writes about the relationship between Black Americans and the environment. The second link, a photo essay, shows Black Americans surrounded by green space.

The Queer Ecology Hanky Project is an art exhibit which explores nature, environmental issues, and human sexuality. This article discusses the symbolism and purpose of the exhibit

Members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and researchers from UC Berkeley speak about the traditional knowledge used by native people to manage their environment. The included video also demonstrates how reintegrating native people into the environment can promote sustainability.

An interview with Navajo bioethicist-geneticist Krystal Tsosie on the ethical implications of CRISPR-Cas9.

Henrietta Lacks visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer treatment. After she passed away, her cancer cells were discovered to be immortal and continued to multiply. Her cells were harvested without the permission of her family and used for research. These materials explain her and her family's story and how this event sparked conversations about ethics in medical research

The Orlando Science Center provides the names and important discoveries of 6 LGBTQ+ scientists. This is a good resource to provide students with LGBTQ+ role models in research.

The Harvard School of Public Health held a forum, “Health in the LGBTQ Community: Improving Care and Confronting Discrimination" to discuss health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community. This resource highlights talking points that pertain to the importance of learning more about LGBTQ health.

This source introduces how the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized gender disparities in medical research. When accounting for the genders of authors publishing COVID research, it was found that the majority of them are men.

This source is about the differences and similarities on transgender and cisgender brains. Although research is mixed, there's a general trend towards transgender individuals having the same brain structure as the gender in which they identify as, even when the studies are controlled for hormones.

Currently, minorities makeup less than 22% of genetic studies. This NPR article discusses the importance of involving minorities in genetic studies by providing examples of genetic variation between races and their contributions to different diseases

This 4-minute video explains how a person’s zip code has a larger impact on their health outcome than their genetic code.

Mary Basset is the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. In this interview, Basset expands on her claim that racism is a public health issue and explains that in order to solve our public health issues, we must first defeat racism. Find disucssion questions here.

This article from the Center for American Progress describes different forms of discrimination LGBTQ individuals experience when trying to receive the health care they need. It shows results of survey data completed in 2017 to clearly exhibit the discrimination. This article also discusses differences in policy and policy enforcement between two different administrations.

This article discusses the racial disparities within coronavirus mortality rates in black communities. They provide a lot of statistical evidence and explain possible causes of this disparity

From the Franklin Institute, learn about experiences of racism in astronomy.

This article explores the relationship between queer astronomers (and one astrologist) and space, through summarizing a suite of interviews and providing some historical context.

A study finds that female astronomers are leaving the academia job market at three to four times the rate of men.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most famous scientist-celebrities today. But, this position is inherently unlikely, with very few African-Americans receiving degrees in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

This extended show discusses the potential of bias in datasets, as well as the dangers of facial recognition.

The article describes Joy Buolamwini's research into how facial recognition software works much better for white men than women and people of color, why this happens, and the implications of this bias.

This article includes insight from three women in AI into the root causes of bias in AI and advice to reduce it.

In this article, Heidi Ledford explains how algorithms that allocate healthcare to patients have a racial bias. The article explains that because of systemic racism in healthcare, black patients were typically assigned lower risk scores -- making them less likely to receive personalized care.

This article describes how ImageNet Roulette, an app that labels faces based on Artificial Intelligence, shows biases in facial recognition software and how they can be based in the biases of the engineers themselves.

Canales reports on an internal change in the language used by Twitter in code and related topics. The article includes a list of the words and phrases that were changed, and their new alternatives.

This article, from the ACLU, provides insight into the impact of AI on racism in the criminal justice system, from tools used in law enforcement to those used to suggest bail amounts or whether someone should get parole, ending with a description of software to increase accountability..

Using the COVID-19 race tracker and introductory CS concepts, this project allows students to learn about the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on Black Americans while practicing computer science concepts. The above link will take you to the main page for this project, which includes guiding questions, the original data, and an example solution. Teachers may give students some of the example solution to tailor the project, depending on the skills they wish to highlight. The assignment can be either take home or in class, but discussion is encouraged either during the project or after finishing it.

Project Drawdown's mission is to present solutions which would help the world reach "drawdown," the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and start to steadily decline. This solution focuses on the health and education of women.

This 13-minute video introduces viewers to the idea of performing a gender, as well as the implied relationships between humans and nature in the term "Mother Earth."