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šæĀ Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre LordeāsĀ The Cancer JournalsāWhere Silence Becomes Strength
Why This Book? When Audre Lorde faced breast cancer as a racialized Black lesbian poet in 1977, she refused Western medicineās 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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The Myth of Scientific Neutrality: Institutional Amnesia and the Scheveningen Eugenic Conference of 1936 – Why does it resonate today?
Introduction: Eugenics as Colonial ViolenceāWhy Its Legacy Demands Our Vigilance Now Eugenicsāforged in the crucible of European colonialism by Francis Galtonāwas never neutral science. It was a weapon. Galtonās theories, born from observing racial hierarchies in British-occupied South Africa, weaponized… Continue reading
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šæ Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 2 – Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – What if our bodies arenāt battlefields?
Every Friday until summer vacation, Iāll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical scienceāso you can build a liberatory reading list for the break. This series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization… Continue reading
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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 Marseilleās Revoir Paris exhibition for omitting the violent history of human zoos adjacent to photographed sites like the Jardin des Plantes. Their responseāa verbose, performative non-replyāmirrored the institutional gaslighting marginalized communities endure daily. I… Continue reading
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šæ Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 1 – Michel FoucaultāsĀ The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.
Every Friday until summer vacation, Iāll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science so you can compile a reading list for the summer break. This series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer… Continue reading
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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 āsubjectā implied submission. It implied that knowledge, control, and authority… Continue reading
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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 resistance against exclusionary medical systems. Before biohacking became a 21st-century… Continue reading
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Black History Month: Honoring Ancestral African Legacy in Healthcare & Medicine.
“If we stand tall, it is because weĀ stand on the shouldersĀ of many ancestors.” – African proverb. When we think of medical innovation, the vast contributions of sub-Saharan Africa are often overlooked. Yet, long before colonial narratives distorted or erased these… Continue reading
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Black History Month: How radical Self-Care empowers All Patient Advocates.
What is Radical Self-Care? Radical self-care is more than a trendy buzzword; it is a transformative practice rooted in activism, resilience, and the fight for social justice. While the concept has gained widespread popularity in recent years, its origins lie… Continue reading
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Black History Month – The forgotten history of African American patients standing against the first 21st-century drug based on 19th-century racial science
The Rise and Fall of BiDil, a heart failure drug : A Story of Science, Race, and Power BiDil was never just a pill. It symbolized the power dynamics in Western science, the illusion of objectivity, and the persistent failure… Continue reading
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