Gideon Quaison

MPH @UofT| Health Equity| Looking to create a new public health| Made In Ghana🇬🇭| He/him| My views are my own|

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

Please join us on Thursday April 11th from 6:00 - 8:00pm PST as we host our in-person and live-streamed event Black Imaginaries – Worldbuilding Towards a New Public Health.

Tickets and more information are available here: https://t.co/EdY8VRajCT

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

UTOPIAN @UofTFamilyMed shared health information without patient consent and knowledge. https://t.co/446vSkH035

Our data belongs to us not physicians and not corporations! #HandsOffOurData #HealthCareData #InformedConsent #familymedicine

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

“The Politics of a Pandemic”

It should be policy over politics but Ontario seems to have other sentiments.

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

Policing is not safety, surveillance is not care and paramilitary style encampment evictions will never be a substitute for affordable and permanent housing. 6/7

[Harsh @harshnaik06]

What role can health folks play in the Palestine solidarity movement? Please check out this event on July 27 at 6:30PM ET with @4cdesai, Audrey Huntley @NoM0reSilence, @GMajadli, and @the__puzzle to find out

https://t.co/pJkWsAQeiM

#NoHealthUnderOccupation #FreePalestine

[Black Students of DLSPH @BlackatDLSPH]

It has been a year+ of deep grief & resistance to intersectional violence & systemic anti-Blk racism during COVID-19. These injustices transcend COVID-19 & are perpetuated by our #publichealth institutions. Sign & share our accountability petition now! https://t.co/gXMBvqeocN

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

Policing will never address public health crisis. Over 60 groups call on the Ford government to end policing measures, defund and abolish police, and provide appropriate supports for workers instead: https://t.co/WB3bmPD6XF

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

The white supremacist thesaurus is an iterative resource and a “living document”

One that finds new language for the the same old coded racist rhetoric and actions.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

Thinking about the use of language throughout this pandemic.

From “hot spot” to “high risk” to “high burden”.

Who it implicates and who it absolves.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

The positioning of the word “essential” yet the conditions are more sacrificial, exploitative and contradictory.

When the extent of support folks are willing to engage in is the clanging of pots and pans rather than adequate PPE, access to vaccines and paid sick days.

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

Encampments all over Toronto have been criminalized and served a Notice Trespass for April 6th. Stop displacing our neighbours in the name of “safer” or “healthier” solutions that do harm! @ESN_TO created this toolkit to push for #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/QNWOiVb0O1

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

Calling for transformative, liberatory and radical. The response was booklists, trainings and data

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

Education/training can help to provide a way forward but not in the sensationalized manner it is being framed to provide immediate gratification for those navigating their guilt related to anti-Black racism.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

The same actors who contribute to upholding these systems that perpetuate racial inequities are trying to dictate solutions to the problem that are and palatable and presumed quick fixes.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

A recovery strategy that is based on racial capitalism (which contributed to the pre-existing precarity that Black Life exists within) cannot be healthy or liberatory for Black communities.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence that constitutes the crime”
- James Baldwin

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

The City of Toronto filed an injunction application against Khaleel Seivwright, the carpenter building tiny shelter for encampment residents.

Justice for Khaleel, who is doing life saving work in the face of complete state abandonment. See his statement: https://t.co/qgMTFEvb1X

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

In the same year where police violence was declared a public health crisis? https://t.co/zmIFpz2zic
#MakeItMakeSense

[Black Public Health Collective @blkpublichealth]

Says “It’s not a question of defunding the police. It’s about creating a different model of policing”. This approach undermines demands of Black communities and public health evidence. This rhetoric erases legacy of resistance that demands alternative models for community safety.

[Gideon Quaison @GideonQ17]

Hope is not a prerequisite for resistance but eventually the chains will rust and break