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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 honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer… 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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How the science of the past still haunts today’s culture. (Interaction with A Museum – Prologue)
📷 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 hopes a few weeks ago—and left with familiar discomfort. The… 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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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 of fact. As my heart raced as I read the… Continue reading
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International Women’s Day 2025: food for thought.
Western feminism’s timeline explained to my 8-year-old African-Asian-European nephew: 1492 – Early 18th century – A handful of privileged European men gave themselves the right to rule the world and brutally shut the door behind them. Late 18th – Early… Continue reading
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Black History Month: Honoring Ancestral African Legacy in Healthcare & Medicine.
“If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the shoulders 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: Patient Empowerment vs. A.I.
When we talk about artificial intelligence, we often forget it evolves in a European cultural framework like anything produced by Western science. Mainstream media and scientific narratives present A.I. as universal human intelligence. With a drop of critical thinking, there… 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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