Community-Based Research Centre

Opening the Digital Closet

February 2013

Ask a teenager how they feel about the constant barrage of distractions that conspire to derail their homework—the Facebook messages, the text messages, the long rabbit hole of flashing video and insipid commentary that is YouTube—and they will answer very simply: “What are you talking about?” The Internet is not a “distraction,” it is simply, “the way things are.” It is the ocean in which one swims. And fish do not complain about being wet.

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Interview with Daniel Grace

Daniel Grace, PhD
Simon Fraser University, Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy & University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine

Understanding Syndemics and Gay Men's Health

January 2013
By: 
Sarah Chown

There is increasingly recognition that environmental factors impact health and wellness. However, few theoretical perspectives and limited research data have emerged to incorporate these environmental factors. One theoretical perspective that foreground the social production of adverse health outcomes and health inequalities is syndemics.

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