Not only experience, which is important, but clinical #research does not parse out the Japanese man or woman from the South Asian man or woman on heart disease risk, epidemiology, treatment.
#EBM lacking for us then
#MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
#EBM lacking for us then
#MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
https://twitter.com/zarinirahman/status/1356699036468797444
And then there is the question of who is white.
Iranian/Persian & Arabs are white on census.
Does the rest of America agree?
Racists & xenophobes tend to use loophole to say being anti-Muslim (whom they consider to all be Arab) is “not racist.”
latimes.com/projects/la-me…
Iranian/Persian & Arabs are white on census.
Does the rest of America agree?
Racists & xenophobes tend to use loophole to say being anti-Muslim (whom they consider to all be Arab) is “not racist.”
latimes.com/projects/la-me…
Proving again: race is a social construct
Not until 2020 Persians really started to call selves “POC” (for self protection)
Have lots of Persian friends
Urdu culture has Farsi roots
But let’s be honest: Persians have seen selves as superior race, apart
wbez.org/stories/renewe…
Not until 2020 Persians really started to call selves “POC” (for self protection)
Have lots of Persian friends
Urdu culture has Farsi roots
But let’s be honest: Persians have seen selves as superior race, apart
wbez.org/stories/renewe…
South Asian diaspora similar:
self interested claims
convenient opt in POC status to ✅ “model minority”
in race obsessed America
for HR stats & optics of diversity
then serve this role
I offend not black POC
when I am honest on this
but #facts
#BLM
npr.org/sections/codes…
self interested claims
convenient opt in POC status to ✅ “model minority”
in race obsessed America
for HR stats & optics of diversity
then serve this role
I offend not black POC
when I am honest on this
but #facts
#BLM
npr.org/sections/codes…
Maz Jobrani always nails it
(It’s Maz, spellcheck - stop trying to force “Max” into this tweet with your Eurocentric AI 😒)
(It’s Maz, spellcheck - stop trying to force “Max” into this tweet with your Eurocentric AI 😒)
Desi aunties/moms can do this too
That is not to say non-European cultures are not maligned or experience xenophobia in the U.S.
but we have to be honest about elitism & anti-blackness
especially, among fiscal/social conservatives in our communities
That is not to say non-European cultures are not maligned or experience xenophobia in the U.S.
but we have to be honest about elitism & anti-blackness
especially, among fiscal/social conservatives in our communities
South Asian diaspora itself has TONs of diversity and cultural challenges within ourselves
Too many respond
in Pavlovian manner to capitalist system incentives
or
to crushing insecurity by seeking to belong
with an attempted narrative of exceptionalism
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Too many respond
in Pavlovian manner to capitalist system incentives
or
to crushing insecurity by seeking to belong
with an attempted narrative of exceptionalism
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Am Muslim Urdu speaking Pakistani-American
ignorant to assume “Indian”
Indian government dropped a bomb on & killed my dad’s only brother & family (I don’t blame the Indian ppl)
In healthcare some w/ name “#ethics” assume & act in this bizarre, ignorant way re: my #BLM posts
ignorant to assume “Indian”
Indian government dropped a bomb on & killed my dad’s only brother & family (I don’t blame the Indian ppl)
In healthcare some w/ name “#ethics” assume & act in this bizarre, ignorant way re: my #BLM posts
Thing is, I know if I placate such racist bullies
who use classic minority vs minority shaming or division
to counter allyship on #BLM
I could gain
conditional acceptance
as white aligned
at margins
No thanks
I stand with #BLM
I am also unapologetically Muslim
Have “khudi”
who use classic minority vs minority shaming or division
to counter allyship on #BLM
I could gain
conditional acceptance
as white aligned
at margins
No thanks
I stand with #BLM
I am also unapologetically Muslim
Have “khudi”
I don’t talk of “microaggressions.” These terms seem meaningless
Is being called Indian micro?
Is it “micro” for a schoolyard style bullying attempt from a doctor
to bring up how my barely alive aunt lay in a bombed home of mangled bodies of her children, husband, siblings?
Is being called Indian micro?
Is it “micro” for a schoolyard style bullying attempt from a doctor
to bring up how my barely alive aunt lay in a bombed home of mangled bodies of her children, husband, siblings?
In South Asian culture we don’t dramatically talk of this
Americans LOVE trauma porn
LOVE to see you bleed & be broken
to maybe allow into the “club” of trauma
=dehumanize/token
So my aunt was also mistaken for dead & put in a morgue until someone realized she was breathing
Americans LOVE trauma porn
LOVE to see you bleed & be broken
to maybe allow into the “club” of trauma
=dehumanize/token
So my aunt was also mistaken for dead & put in a morgue until someone realized she was breathing
Unlike Amy Cooper or white woman who lied about Emmett Till invoking KKK style barbarism to torture & multilate that child
WW can use “damsel in distress”
South Asian women know brown & black female pain or trauma not seen, apart from an occasional token white savior response
WW can use “damsel in distress”
South Asian women know brown & black female pain or trauma not seen, apart from an occasional token white savior response
How much have you heard about this? You haven’t, I bet
Brown & Black pain is not seen or important
Not all of us seek to be broken human beings for scraps of someone’s attention or opt in/out racist “empathy”😒🤮
Hard pass
There are many (family) stories of trauma I don’t tell
Brown & Black pain is not seen or important
Not all of us seek to be broken human beings for scraps of someone’s attention or opt in/out racist “empathy”😒🤮
Hard pass
There are many (family) stories of trauma I don’t tell
My family had enuf privilege to get out early/protected
Many killed, mutilated like Emmett Till
When @USC @Sarah_Mojarad claims my tweeting daily on my OWN experience
or
holding newly self-identifying “POC” accountable on implicit bias is “harassment”
Trauma a “club”?
No
#BLM
Many killed, mutilated like Emmett Till
When @USC @Sarah_Mojarad claims my tweeting daily on my OWN experience
or
holding newly self-identifying “POC” accountable on implicit bias is “harassment”
Trauma a “club”?
No
#BLM
Mostly ignored libel/gossip
recently learned @Sarah_Mojarad is closely associated w/ ppl who share anti-Muslim QAnon posts
+ what social media sites labels #misinformation #disinformation
+ her unverified, non-factual posts
despite teaching @USC #SciComm
=dangerous miseducation
recently learned @Sarah_Mojarad is closely associated w/ ppl who share anti-Muslim QAnon posts
+ what social media sites labels #misinformation #disinformation
+ her unverified, non-factual posts
despite teaching @USC #SciComm
=dangerous miseducation
@Sarah_Mojarad @USC I said it before & will say it again, please educate yourself first as white (aligned)
South Asian & Muslim women have been silent or complicit long enough (too many generations)
Stop mislabeling, silencing black, women, LGBTQ while newly calling self POC
South Asian & Muslim women have been silent or complicit long enough (too many generations)
Stop mislabeling, silencing black, women, LGBTQ while newly calling self POC
Just another petty academic turf war of “her” narrative to exclude/invalidate others? 🤷🏻♀️
But QAnon association, now #CapitolRiot #insurrection
+ this
= scary
I choose not to feel fear on things I cannot control
It merely wastes my own energy
Am documenting this here for @FBI
But QAnon association, now #CapitolRiot #insurrection
+ this
= scary
I choose not to feel fear on things I cannot control
It merely wastes my own energy
Am documenting this here for @FBI
Not my place to #cyberstalk - experts have the jobs for a reason
What shows up in a simple Google search I find
Since this, I admit I have started looking at FB accounts of those in #healthcare
And while 🤐 “safer” (for me)
“Silence is violence”
#BLM
thehill.com/homenews/53674…
What shows up in a simple Google search I find
Since this, I admit I have started looking at FB accounts of those in #healthcare
And while 🤐 “safer” (for me)
“Silence is violence”
#BLM
thehill.com/homenews/53674…
I - on whose trauma is silenced or ignored or dismissed - will not “move on”
It kills black & brown women & babies in American #healthcare
@AOC showed her humanity & vulnerability, to what response?
No, this is NOT okay
Yes, there *is* lasting harm
Not a “club”
We are all AOC
It kills black & brown women & babies in American #healthcare
@AOC showed her humanity & vulnerability, to what response?
No, this is NOT okay
Yes, there *is* lasting harm
Not a “club”
We are all AOC
https://twitter.com/thecut/status/1356694956224745474
I started squarely in my own lane of #HSR #research #policy #MedEd #communication
Had applied for both @PCORI advisory panel on #health #system & #disparities
Got latter (then they merged)
This is over 1.5 decade of my life
This is my identity as a Muslim, WOC
Standing firm
Had applied for both @PCORI advisory panel on #health #system & #disparities
Got latter (then they merged)
This is over 1.5 decade of my life
This is my identity as a Muslim, WOC
Standing firm
I had some trepidation, tbh, speaking on my Muslim identity to a #business crowd w/ @becker_sbecker in this #podcast - I focused on #disparities generally. Old habits die hard, denying I had experienced racism
In doing so tho, could tell others’ stories
go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…
In doing so tho, could tell others’ stories
go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…
We hear of the danger of the single story
“Ngozi Adichie uses the phrase “single stories” to describe the overly simplistic and sometimes false perceptions we form about individuals, groups, or countries.”
Whose story is heard?
Who defines a group?
facinghistory.org/resource-libra…
“Ngozi Adichie uses the phrase “single stories” to describe the overly simplistic and sometimes false perceptions we form about individuals, groups, or countries.”
Whose story is heard?
Who defines a group?
facinghistory.org/resource-libra…
Human beings are messy. We often try to connect the dots for others.
“follows in the footsteps of other popular memoirs, like Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala and Misty Copeland’s Life in Motion, that have been modified for younger readers”
apple.news/AvSA2zDhwRsuKb…
“follows in the footsteps of other popular memoirs, like Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala and Misty Copeland’s Life in Motion, that have been modified for younger readers”
apple.news/AvSA2zDhwRsuKb…
And some stories repeat. Minority experience is always conditional, revokable citizenship/belonging.
“Taken together, those cases reveal a Supreme Court unwilling to exercise its constitutional responsibility to confront naked discrimination.”
nyclu.org/en/publication…
“Taken together, those cases reveal a Supreme Court unwilling to exercise its constitutional responsibility to confront naked discrimination.”
nyclu.org/en/publication…
This is the newest version of it. Grateful @mit has pushed back. The allegations were not spying but tax issues. This is “gotcha.”
It’s why as someone Muslim I check and double check to avoid error. This is a reality based necessity in country with this & recent Muslim ban.
It’s why as someone Muslim I check and double check to avoid error. This is a reality based necessity in country with this & recent Muslim ban.
https://twitter.com/pebonilla/status/1354792729725775872
Even though “Asia” has been identified as an preferred #clinicaltrial #clinicalresearch destination.
novotech-cro.com/sites/default/…
novotech-cro.com/sites/default/…
Will this help with #clinicaltrial #research #diversity?
The gatekeepers of how data defined or applied in U.S. #healthcare are primarily white & male. Will they have right definitions or lens on ethics? Will white-aligned POC establish accountability?
biospace.com/article/pushin…
The gatekeepers of how data defined or applied in U.S. #healthcare are primarily white & male. Will they have right definitions or lens on ethics? Will white-aligned POC establish accountability?
biospace.com/article/pushin…
Or if POC achieve seeming positions of power
is the experience still akin to schoolyard bullying unless one aligns and supports coded or overt white supremacy?
WOC who affirm their full, messy, multicultural identical are often targets & mislabeled on most petty issues.
is the experience still akin to schoolyard bullying unless one aligns and supports coded or overt white supremacy?
WOC who affirm their full, messy, multicultural identical are often targets & mislabeled on most petty issues.
https://twitter.com/tamikadmallory/status/1355568311824740359
It is SO painfully clear from responses to both @AOC & @IlhanMN vs those anti-accountability after #insurrection & #capitalriots
double standards
I dehumanize my OWN self
BEFORE anyone can do it to me
Fear is what bullies want
I refuse to comply
But yes, is scary
If I am honest
double standards
I dehumanize my OWN self
BEFORE anyone can do it to me
Fear is what bullies want
I refuse to comply
But yes, is scary
If I am honest
I pulled thru this semester
getting all As (except one class)
trying to
ignore QAnon/alt right #cyberbullying
cuz of my #GOTV
volunteer #covid19 #vaccineworks #SciComm to combat #disinformation in marginalized communities
publish
etc
severe pain flares again
nearly passed out
getting all As (except one class)
trying to
ignore QAnon/alt right #cyberbullying
cuz of my #GOTV
volunteer #covid19 #vaccineworks #SciComm to combat #disinformation in marginalized communities
publish
etc
severe pain flares again
nearly passed out
https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1317266690078609410
It has been a long road, trying to learn to feel pain I actually have
thru “mind-body” work
I had learned to accommodate the way the world treats black, brown & Muslim women
But was too stoic
focused on what others wanted from me
I push thru until I get really, really sick
thru “mind-body” work
I had learned to accommodate the way the world treats black, brown & Muslim women
But was too stoic
focused on what others wanted from me
I push thru until I get really, really sick
just got approved for leave
thought I had learned not to end up in burnout, not get so sick
this has not been a normal year for anyone
tough as a WOC, Muslim, anti-racist
way my country AND my peers/profession dehumanize sometimes does get to me
have my weak moments it’s true
thought I had learned not to end up in burnout, not get so sick
this has not been a normal year for anyone
tough as a WOC, Muslim, anti-racist
way my country AND my peers/profession dehumanize sometimes does get to me
have my weak moments it’s true
https://twitter.com/_sjpeace_/status/1357047136727236618
@DrvanTilburg is spot on: exhausting to live smoke & mirrors of double standards. Everything I do is per policy & protocol, due process, validated facts
....except, double standards means I can do it exactly right & still be seen as a threat
(If new to this thread, scroll up)
....except, double standards means I can do it exactly right & still be seen as a threat
(If new to this thread, scroll up)
https://twitter.com/drvantilburg/status/1308825638078423041
So I keep pushing myself into burnout over & over
just not enuf people doing this work authentically, for RESULTS
I *have* to overdeliver by 3-5x
I still assume merit matters
I try to be stoic
Even as I take leave:my mind races, “but what am I going to show for it/accomplish?”
just not enuf people doing this work authentically, for RESULTS
I *have* to overdeliver by 3-5x
I still assume merit matters
I try to be stoic
Even as I take leave:my mind races, “but what am I going to show for it/accomplish?”
https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1316972347761590272
I am really torn on writing formally & the gatekeeping of #publishing. Note in this #TikTok: she lists ALL her #writing prizes to validate her “right” to speak about her own experience
Scroll up on South Asian silence on history of trauma. I don’t want to exploit my ancestors
Scroll up on South Asian silence on history of trauma. I don’t want to exploit my ancestors
https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1350794500755615746
I understand what “sells” but I am not interested in delivering that
I don’t validate Orientalist fetishes or biases that Muslim women need saving (by a culture that will abuse)
If I expand past expected boxes or stereotypes, I confuse the reader
People want the “single story”
I don’t validate Orientalist fetishes or biases that Muslim women need saving (by a culture that will abuse)
If I expand past expected boxes or stereotypes, I confuse the reader
People want the “single story”
https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1224475479014506496
That’s the tweet I started with. What would it be like to be able to be truly yourself?
What if could express without others slapping labels or telling you which spaces to be in & how?
What if you did not experience being interchanged with other WOC? What if could define self?
What if could express without others slapping labels or telling you which spaces to be in & how?
What if you did not experience being interchanged with other WOC? What if could define self?
https://twitter.com/zarinirahman/status/1356699036468797444
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