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Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme is a historian, editor, and writer based in Berlin, Germany. She earned her PhD in history of science at Princeton University. Her essays critically engage with how humans conceptualize science, epidemics, race, and gender; they have appeared in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, and more. icon

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“We Plot to Undo the World”

By Edna Bonhomme

Artist Simone Leigh curated a series of intellectual sermons directed by Black women who grieved, strategized, loved, and yearned for community.

When Black Humanity Is Denied

By Edna Bonhomme

Critiquing the Enlightenment is essential, because there the asylum, prison, and science itself unveil their violent foundations.

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