Today, we wish everyone a happy 4th of July. While celebrations may be different this year, we join all Americans in reflecting on the freedoms and values on which this nation was founded 244 years ago.
This is the racist message that some of us involved in our department name change to Dept of Literatures in English woke up to. This rhetoric is being incubated in right wing chat rooms where they practice perverse intersectionalism. Note the email address is gasalltrannyfreaks
The latest post from the ICMDA blog. The director of the English chapter of the L’Abri Fellowship, Dr. James Paul, writes about the heavenly reason to care for bodies. Read and be blessed!
https://t.co/E509ILD3tG
This week’s #ICMDA blog where Dr. #RebeccaTorry of the British #NHS writes about the need for health professionals to cooperate across international lines to reduce human suffering caused by Covid-19.
Members of a whole https://t.co/2WYIrz86xe via @icmdanet
In academia we need to:
-Normalize taking breaks.
-Normalize taking days off to rest, rejuvenate, and reset.
-Normalize emotion and crying.
-Normalize mental health.
-Normalize struggle, rejection, and failure.
-Normalize being human.
We are NOT machines.
Dr George Mathew writes about how their hospital in a village in India treated COVID patients with scant resources. Yet, not one life was lost. I edit this blog for the ICMDA. Facing COVID in a remote and resource-poor location https://t.co/uwtaCKNTPZ via @icmdanet
A short but very personal reflection on the lessons from #COVID19. I help edit this blog.
Putting ‘care’ back into ‘healthcare’ after COVID-19 – a reflection https://t.co/ncS9gqw5lI via @icmdanet
Bill Galvin - Redbud Tree
“Pinkish-red flowers on long, lean branches,
It can take any shape it needs to be.
It can grow tall, and it can reach out wide,
But the flowers are what most impress me."