Episode 18: Toxicology & Communities of Resistance. A Conversation with Melina Packer, Ph.D.

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In Episode 18, “Toxicology & Communities of Resistance," I’m speaking with Melina Packer, Ph.D.

Melina is a postdoctoral research associate in the Feminist Lenses for Animal Interaction Research (FLAIR) Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently writing a queer feminist history of toxicology in the U.S., in which she argues that racial, gendered, and economic hierarchies are embedded into the science itself. These inherent biases, in turn, help explain how and why marginalized peoples remain disproportionately more exposed to toxic environmental chemicals.
In our conversation, Melina explores:

• How society became inundated with synthetic chemicals or toxicants.
  
• How women, especially women of color, factory- and farm-workers, LGBTQ+ people, and members of other socially marginalized groups, are often over-burdened by toxic exposures.
  
• What endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are and how they challenge core tenets of toxicology.
  
• How over-exposed communities are pushing back against the chemical industry.

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