healthcare
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Magical Thinking Won’t Save Modern Western Science. Dignity Will.
Trigger warning: The following text contains the overlooked, invaluable lived experiences of countless humans with modern Western science’s hegemony over patients and humanity, its inherent dehumanization, and its often disregarded systemic limits. Proceeding further is left at the reader’s discretion.… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Series to Reimagining Healthcare- Week 5 – The end is just the beginning: The Patient-Led Scientific Revolution. (Short e-Book)
It’s our final installment of the Summer Of Unlearning, a series of books to unlearn, open our minds, and reimagine healthcare. This insightful series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer and self-declared epistemo-pathologist. The… Continue reading
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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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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, born from observing racial hierarchies in British-occupied South Africa, weaponized… Continue reading
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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 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 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, performative non-reply—mirrored the institutional gaslighting marginalized communities endure daily. I… Continue reading
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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 zoos—that Western science once framed as “progress.” Today, I return… 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 “subject” 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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