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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) provides an established surgical intervention to control pathological tibiofemoral translational and rotational movement. ACLR is a safe and reproducible intervention, but there remains an underlying rate of failure to return to preinjury sporting activity levels. Postoperative pathological laxity and graft reinjury remain concerns. Previously, unrecognized meniscal lesions, disruption of the lateral capsule, and extracapsular structures offer potential avenues to treat and to therefore improve kinematic outcome and functional results, following reconstruction. Addressing laterally based injuries may also improve the durability of intraarticular ACLR. Improving the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft replication of the normal ACL attachment points on the femur and the tibia, using either double bundle or anatomical single bundle techniques, improves kinematics, which may benefit outcome and functionality, following reconstruction.

Recent works in and around Black feminist and queer studies have explored the figure of unbearable life through different forms of forgetting. A forgetting attends every act of conceptual or cultural invention, but forgetting also marks a range of cognitive deteriorations in and around experiences of disability, death, and dying. Working between the discourses of afro-fabulation, afropessimism, and Black feminism, the article details the ways every act of invention is also a form of forgetting, and every instance of loss is also a form of creativity. Afro-fabulation, as one name for a Black queer mode of invention, is at once a mode of creating bearable forms of life from abjection, and a form of forgetting. In their shared attention to cognitive deterioration and death as forms of loss, Black feminism and afropessimism open space for reckoning with the impermanence and indeterminacy central to the Black radical tradition.

This article offers a reading of the spatial politics of Black feminist theorizing to examine recent critiques of intersectionality produced under the heading of “assemblage theory,” especially in the work of Jasbir Puar. I argue that these critiques reductively produce intersectionality as a spatial metaphor that locates and fixes compound subjects, a fixing complicit with the work of the national security state. Intervening in these critiques of intersectionality, the article traces alternative theorizations of spatiality and subjectivity internal to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work, extending them through Hortense Spillers’s theorization of the interstice as the nonsite of the Black female subject. In this rereading of Crenshaw through Spillers, I explore how intersectionality belongs not only to a tradition of Black feminist theorizing on particularity and compoundedness but to a tradition of Black feminist theorizing on placelessness, singularity, and absence. Rather than bolster oppressive institutions through liberal models of inclusion, Black feminism names a monstrous potential to disrupt and to disappear within institutional space.

The Black subject in Lee Edelman's queer negativity is explored here as both absent from and productive of its most radical critiques of futurity. The essay attempts to read a different queer negativity within the tradition of Black feminist theorizing.

This piece emerges from a sense of the necessity and the hazards of an intellectual history of a moment during which, to take a suggestive phrase from Jared Sexton, \"Blackness is theory itself, anti-blackness the resistance to theory.\" But already language presents an issue. What is the relationship between Sexton's \"theory\" and the \"theory\" found in the epigraph from Elizabeth Bruss? Or, between Sexton's \"theory\" and Lewis R. Gordon's \"theory,\" as Sexton borrows from Gordon's \"Theory in Black\" as his point of departure in the quoted essay? For Gordon, \"theory\" would refer to a genre of philosophical practice, perhaps the genre of philosophical practice, and his enterprise is to chart the path of Blackness within the long career of theory, from the ancient to the classical to analytic and existential philosophy. For Bruss, \"theory\" is a mode of writing, emerging in the middle of the twentieth century, that cuts between the established modes of the \"critical\" and the \"literary.\" Both Gordon and Bruss are writing to the side of \"critical theory\" and \"cultural studies,\" with Gordon writing in a philosophical tradition anxiously adjacent to them and Bruss writing before either term took on their present meanings. Sexton is engaged in both enterprises. Indeed, an intellectual history of feminist and queer studies in the present is, by necessity, also a history of critical theory and cultural studies. It is no surprise that these terms remain largely unremarked upon, even while they animate our researches.

Because down in the bound periodicals, on a shelf neighboring Sinister Wisdom, which was my research agenda for that day, was an unassuming lesbian feminist quarterly out of Iowa City called Common Lives/Lesbian Lives. Smith's name stood out throughout my early education in feminist history. Because her twin sister Barbara's name looms so much larger in that history, yes, but more because of her author statements, because she spoke of \"the Struggle,\" and the struggles of adulthood in the same breath, with wry humor and teddy bears. Though it doesn't appear in the text, \"crush\" is a suggestive alternative because it captures some of the affective experience of unreciprocated longing-am I crushing them? Because I'm being crushed. \"8 And this experience of mourning in its relation to desire opens onto the nature of the ego itself. Because we might ask, as Freud asked, why the loss of an object of desire does not simply cause us to replace it with another object.

This article presents reflections on the contemporary academic workplace from two junior scholars working with Black feminism in interdisciplinary contexts. We reflect on our own interactions with two Black feminist “classics” Conditions V: The Black Women’s Issue (1979), co-edited by Lorraine Bethel and Barbara Smith, and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983), edited by Barbara Smith, and consider the challenges of teaching Black feminism in the classroom. We discuss both our experiences as education professionals working within and against hostile institutions, and our experiences in the classroom. We explore the dynamics of teaching Black feminist theorizing in an increasingly financialized and securitized environment, where our students’ desires for economic security index a worsening precarity they share with us. In the face of these desires for security, we explore what of the Black feminist tradition resists any reduction to the brutalizing logics of racial capitalism.

Objective: The present study compared the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR) simulator for training phlebotomy with that of a more traditional approach using simulated limbs. Background: Phlebotomy, or drawing blood, is one of the most common medical procedures; yet, there are no universal standards for training and assessing performance. The absence of any standards can lead to injuries and inaccurate test results if the procedure is improperly performed. Method: Twenty 3rd-year medical students were trained under one of the two methods and had their performance assessed with a 28-item checklist. Results: The results showed that performance improvements were limited to those who trained with the simulated limbs, and a detailed comparison of the two systems revealed several functional and physical differences that may explain these findings. Conclusion: Participants trained with simulated limbs performed better than those trained with a VR simulator; however, the metrics recorded by the VR system may address some aspects of performance that could eventually prove beneficial. Application: The present study highlights the potential for medical simulators to improve patient safety by enabling trainees to practice procedures on devices instead of patients. Applications of this research include training, performance assessment, and design of simulator systems.