Good morntint🌞
I am still surprised at how many super highly educated people with authority & power 2 whom I have to explicitly state these words:
“Human Race Is A Sociopolitical Construct #HRIASC invented by white supremacism for the purpose of economic power hoarding.” #AIMART
Again, I wouldn’t be a millennial professor if I didn’t make an @instagram reel/TikTok about it 😁😆😊

We stay reminding MDs, PhDs, RNs, PharmDs, DPTs, SLPs, ABCDs, XYZs, 5-Os, & C3POs that
Race is NOT biological &
Racism is the vector of health disparities. @EndRC2022 #AIMART
Biological race is a racist lie created 2 justify American chattel slavery, settler & non-settler colonialism, & imperialism. That lie was created to encode the belief in the biological inferiority of Black bodies into America’s cultural, economic, legal, & political core.#AIMART
This was done in order to enshrine a “natural” racial hierarchy that maintains those racialized as white at the top of the economic & political tier & Black & Indigenous at the bottom.
Race science continues to persist today in medicine, healthcare, & public health practice, policy, education, & research despite advancements brought about by the human genome project which demonstrated that humans are 99.9% identical.
There’s more genetic diversity within a single racialized category than between categories.

We CANNOT achieve health justice & equity without eliminating race science & un-teaching our doctors, nurses, pharmacists, & the entire healthcare workforce & trainees these harmful lies.
‼️ Race may have been invented, but racism IS very real & so is its impact on our health, wealth, & progress.

📣End Race science in medicine, healthcare, & public health in the #UnitedStates #Canada & #AllOverTheWorld.
Today!

@EndRC2022 @rede4blacklives @DrJessIsomMDMPH

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May 1
🧵 Here’s a sampling of books on or including info on Race Science/Race medicine/Scientific racism. Feel free to add to the list. Save, share, tag folks. Also, let me know if you’ve read any of them & your take-aways.
How have they shaped/influenced your work?
List ⬇️.
#AIMART
✅Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by @gravesjl55 & Alan Goodman

✅Superior: THE RETURN OF RACE SCIENCE by Angela Saini

✅Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by @DorothyERoberts

1/
✅Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by @LundyBraun

✅Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by @DorothyERoberts

2/
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Apr 17
There’s a tweet making its rounds that’s truly annoying as it illustrates the stubborn inability/refusal of nice liberal white folks” to be critically self aware, particularly of their own white body privilege & positionality.
See screenshot.
(Choosing not to RT)

So, a 🧵

1/
👉🏿There’s no such thing as being “apolitical”. Politics is life. Everything about our lives & living is informed by politics & we inform the dynamics of said politics by our participation or lack thereof.

2/
The notion that one is “apolitical” is intentionally ignorant, arrogantly, & usually a cop-out from being held accountable for one’s decisions or lack thereof. It is often the position of a person who holds privilege or body advantage in an unjust & unequal society or …

3/
Read 19 tweets
Apr 16
📣Almost 40% of Black mothers and birthing people experience Maternal Mental Health (MMH) conditions.

📣Compared to white women, Black women are twice as likely to experience MMH conditions but half as likely to receive treatment.

mmhla.org/wp-content/upl…

#AIMART
#BMHW22
📣Black women are one of the most undertreated groups for depression in the U.S.

📣Over 50% cases of postpartum depression in women of color go unreported

#AIMART
#BMHW22
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
that increase the risk of MMH among Black women:
👉🏿Structural racism & intersectional systemic violence/oppression, including misogynoir
👉🏿Unemployment
👉🏿Exposure to violence
👉🏿Gaps in medical insurance
👉🏿Adverse Childhood Experiences
& more 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
Read 5 tweets
Mar 20
On this upcoming International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & Transatlantic SlaveTrade 3/25 & International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 3/21, I'm remembering how Black people were cared for by Veterinarians along with white folks' animals. 1/
I’m remembering how we weren’t seen by human physicians unless our case was complex or “interesting” and were serving the role of “teaching material” for the education of white physicians or “research materials” for experimentation and research to improve white health.

2/
I’m remembering how not much has changed today as practices such as “race correction” continue to uphold the current system of medical apartheid that undervalues Black bodies, minds, and souls in the Canadian and US health/healthcare/pubic health system.

3/
Read 5 tweets
Mar 19
Morntint☀️
Now that you washed the crust from yo’ eyes & done your morntint meditation - can’t wait to see you 1pmET this aftrnoon on @TwitterSpaces
for the crisis management that is #AIMART becos
📣Global AntiBlackness is a Global Health Crisis!
🌍Africa*Asia*MidEast

AMPLIFY!
Then follow @Clubhouse for the antiracism skills workshop on the CARE framework/Rubric.
4:30pmET

clubhouse.com/event/M4Ga9KLy…
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Jan 30
Good morntint to everyone except people who reflexively hit the “people shld be hired/admitted/recognized on the basis of their qualifications rgrdlss of skin color/gender” button when a Black (woman) is considered for a position, but not when it’s the usual mediocre white men.
These folks are your run-of-the-mill “color blind” intentionally ignorant folks who refuse to understand that we don’t function in a vacuum & the ubiquitous presence & impact of white supremacy informing their expectation of qualifications for marginalized identities while…
2/
…assuming inherent qualification for white mediocrity. I’m talking blatant mediocrity. We are surrounded by it and suffer the consequences of poor leadership & performance in our places of work, education, service, etc.

Why?

3/
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