Ina Roy
Ina Roy-Faderman’s writings have recently appeared in Trash Panda, Pigeon Papers and Numum, among others. She was educated at Stanford (AB, MA, MD) and U.C. Berkeley (PhD) and currently teaches biomedical ethics. She is an assistant editor at Right Hand Pointing, chair of the Poetry Postcard Fest board, and on the board of directors for Writers Rising Up.
Projects
Poetry Postcard Festival Board
The Poetry Postcard Festival (formerly the August Poetry Postcard Festival) is an annual postcard exchange between people from all over the world through the month of August.
- Literary Arts ,
- Social Justice
Last Song of the Sirens
Genetic modification was once the norm. Now, a girl whose parents modified her to become a vision of mermaid-style beauty and a woman who sleeps with a "failed experiment" collide with The Collectors -- an organization obsessed with owning modified human beings.
- Literary Arts
Gnu
Chapbook: Poems, beautiful monstrousness of nature
- Literary Arts
Ethics of Patient Mask-Wearing: Point/Counterpoint
Project with four U.S. ENTs , for *Otolarygology*'s Point/Counterpoint column.
- Philosophy
Elisabeth Lloyd Festschrift Chapter
Invited chapter honoring Elisabeth Lloyd's philosophical, feminist, & scientific work. Topic: Why isn't the phenomenon of Wolffian duct removal in female fetal development treated to an evolutionary explanation, despite the potential for an obvious adaptationist story?
- Philosophy ,
- Social Justice
The Dilemma of “Forced Intervention” in the Seemingly Hopeless Situation
Ethical considerations in providing tracheostomy for severely and permanently impaired children.
- Philosophy ,
- Medicine ,
- Social Justice
Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: author Lindsay Merbaum
In conversation with poet, fiction writer, editor, and cocktail expert Lindsay Merbaum about her debut novel, The Gold Persimmon. For the Rumpus Mini-Interview Project.
- Literary Arts
Genetic Information: New Models of Ownership
Philosophical analyses provide several definitions of "genetic information," many working "backwards" from possible uses of this information to a definition. I'll examine several different analogies (art, gift, organ) to identify characteristics specific to genetic information.
- Philosophy ,
- Social Justice ,
- Medicine
Poetry Postcard Festival: Poet Interviews
The (August) Poetry Postcard Festival is an exchange of poems on postcards each August. I was an editor of 56 Days of August, an anthology of fest poems. So when I had the opportunity to interview three other participatants, I jumped at it.
- Literary Arts
90 Days of Creativity: a log
I'm joining in Joe Landini's inspiring "90 Days of Creativity" project. I'm hoping participating will reshape my priorities to place my physical health and creative work at the top of my daily activities, rather than being crammed into the dusty corners of my work & family lives
- Literary Arts
Project Holding Area
The academic year ends, and boom! I conceive a billion writing projects. I track lit projects individually, but I have far too many phil sci and ethics ideas and end up ditching most of them. I'm going to try logging them here, seeing if patterns emerge in what gets used.
- Philosophy ,
- Social Justice ,
- Medicine
Skills
Literary Arts
FocusTeaching, Writing, EditingGenresLiterary Fiction, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Flash Fiction, Free Verse PoetryPhilosophy
TopicsGender & Sexuality, Academic Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Gender & Sexuality Ethics, Technology Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, BiontechTraditionsAnalytic Philosophy, Continental PhilosophySocial Justice
FocusPolicy Advocacy, Subtle ActivismTopicsGender & Sexuality, Healthcare ReformMedicine
FocusEducation, Healthcare Science, Medical ResearchSpecializationsInfectious Disease