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🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals—Where Silence Becomes Strength
Why This Book? When Audre Lorde faced breast cancer as a racialized Black lesbian poet in 1977, she refused Western medicine’s scripts of shame. The Cancer Journals (1980) is a manifesto against systems… Read more
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The Myth of Scientific Neutrality: Institutional Amnesia and the Scheveningen Eugenic Conference of 1936 – Why does it resonate today?
Introduction: Eugenics as Colonial Violence—Why Its Legacy Demands Our Vigilance Now Eugenics—forged in the crucible of European colonialism by Francis Galton—was never neutral science. It was a weapon. Galton’s theories,… Read more
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 2 – Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – What if our bodies aren’t battlefields?
Every Friday until summer vacation, I’ll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science—so you can build a liberatory reading list for the break. This series honors… Read more
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A Quick Mental Health Guide: Surviving Institutional Gaslighting & Reclaiming Your Reality (Interaction with A Museum – Epilogue)
In April 2025, I critiqued Huis Marseille’s Revoir Paris exhibition for omitting the violent history of human zoos adjacent to photographed sites like the Jardin des Plantes. Their response—a verbose,… Read more
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 1 – Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.
Every Friday until summer vacation, I’ll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science so you can compile a reading list for the summer break. This series… Read more
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Colonial Amnesia and the Psychology of Healing: A Call for Institutional Courage. (Interaction with A Museum – A hopeful dark chapter)
In the post “How the science of the past still haunts today’s culture“, I shared my reflections on Huis Marseille’s Revoir Paris exhibition, which omitted the violent history of ethnological exhibitions—human… Read more
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From Subject to Patient Partner: Why I Became a Science Decolonization Writer
When I studied pharmaceutical science in the early 2000s, my professors taught me that patients were subjects in research. It was clinical, unquestioned, and, in hindsight, disturbingly normalized. The word… Read more
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How the science of the past still haunts today’s culture. (Interaction with A Museum – Prologue)
đź“· As a French scientist of African descent, raised by a mother who archived and conserved stories others preferred to forget, I walked into Huis Marseille’s Revoir Paris with high… Read more
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DIY Medicine and the Politics of Empowerment.
Biohacking, Psycho-Hacking, and the Decolonization of Health: How DIY Medicine Became a Tool of Liberation Throughout history, marginalized communities have pioneered DIY medicine as a means of survival, empowerment, and… Read more
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Why I refuse to take an IQ test.
A few years ago, while in therapy, a psychologist wrote on an assessment report that I had a high IQ. They didn’t test me. They just noted, as a matter… Read more
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