Logic(s)

Dec 17, 2024 | logicmag.io | Zoe Samudzi

When I was informed that my daddy’s cancer bore hereditary implications, I was no longer caught in the preceding months’ loop of anxiously catastrophizing about paternal mortality.

Aug 26, 2024 | logicmag.io | Tamara Kneese |Santiago Sánchez

Recent advances in biotechnology have motivated a16z, one of the flagship venture capital firms of Silicon Valley, to declare this the Century of Biology. Like the tech boom before it, the current biotech boom promises to change the world in ways we could have never imagined––and as with the tech boom, many such changes may not be for the better.

Aug 15, 2024 | logicmag.io | Bettina Judd |Rezina Habtemariam

Gynecology was built on the backs of Black women, anyway.1patient., written by Bettina Judd, is a visceral collection of poems elucidating the history of medical experimentation on Black women that produced gynecology and its technologies. Meditating on the women rendered property through slavery, Judd sharply attends to the violence that structured their lives. patient. interrogates the legacy of J. Marion Sims, a nineteenth-century medical doctor who is widely regarded as the father of gynecology.

Aug 1, 2024 | logicmag.io | Jane Chung

This essay was supposed to be about cleaning. I have a family history of cleaning work. My mom housekept and minded the front desk at a Holiday Inn throughout my childhood. My grandmother carried my brother to meet my dad at the office where he had a cleaning job; they all worked together to make good time.

Jul 16, 2024 | logicmag.io | Abdalhadi Alijla

My father, an administrator by profession, typically concluded his workday at two thirty in the afternoon. His homecoming was often delayed until three thirty or four. As a young child, the moments I spent waiting for him, tethered to the suspense of his arrival, were as countless as the grains of sand on the beach. On spotting him, I would burst forth in a jubilant run, meeting him halfway in our shared anticipation.