DisabilityJustice
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 4 – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice – Where access is love, not compliance
What is the Summer of Unlearning?This series was born from conversations with artist-researchers and survivor-patients—those creating radical wisdom from the margins of medicine.Each week, we engage a book that reveals the gaps in Western medical thought—and lifts up new paths… Continue reading
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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 that erase marginalized bodies. Lorde exposes how Western medicine: “Prosthesis… Continue reading
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