Vaccine Dreams

This week, we start with a Temperature Check that highlights how few schools are requiring students to be vaccinated for coronavirus in the fall. But we use that as a jumping-off point for a broader conversation about the complexities of conversations about vaccines. That conversation starts with Eula Biss's On Immunity: An Innoculation, but it takes us to Greek myth, to eighteenth-century satirical prints, and to Lee Edelman's No Future. 

"100 U.S. colleges will require vaccinations to attend in-person classes in the fall.": https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/colleges-vaccinations-enrollment.html

On Immunity: An Inoculation: https://www.amazon.com/Immunity-Inoculation-Eula-Biss/dp/1555977200

"Miami school bars vaccinated teachers from seeing students": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56905752

"The cow-pock,-or-The wonderful effects of the new inoculation!": https://www.themorgan.org/blog/cow-pock-or-wonderful-effects-new-inoculation

"No, We Don’t Know if Vaccines Change Your Period: We do know that researchers do not study menstruation enough.": https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-menstruation-periods.html

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IWVyYXYVTFDtlDvzrc4q4OK3UDevXBMPfbGGdlKjZPg/edit?usp=sharing

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