Recently, someone at work touched my hair 🧵 It's the 4th in the last 12 months that a middle-aged white woman (yes it's relevant) decides to satisfy their curiosity by disrespecting my crown. I'd like to share what went through my head 1/x All 4 times, they were healthcare professionals, not patients 'Didn't see this one coming, f**k there's a learner in the room and I don't have time to address it right now, I have work to do - ok ignore it, you'll get back to it' 2/x

Education Monday: White supremacy is EVERYWHERE. Zimbabwe. 3.5 billions US to compensate 4000 white farmers whose lands were seized as reparations for colonialism. Meanwhile the population is starving. Let me explain in layman’s terms. 1/ Your granddaddies came, killed us and took our land. Generations later your family is still profiting from stolen lands. Later, we take the land back. New gov’ment shows up, decides/is coerced to pay you back while people are in the streets, starving, pleading for their lives. 2/

This is thread: subtleties of systemic racism, Canada

When I was in medical school, experiencing "pseudo" single parenthood (a partner who lived in a different city for also education), I was required to travel to a different province for a total of 16 weeks. 1/ I knew before starting med school I would have to travel, but not the details. It was a draw amongst students, arbitrary, divided in 4-week periods. At that point, med life had already been hard, I had 3rd baby, following a high risk pregnancy. 2/