Dr. Kene Loading…

another black queen finding her way through this world. phd student. @UmassSPHHS alum. repro justice. dog mom. human. tweets are my own. 🇳🇬🏳️‍🌈

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

I figured I needed to make it Twitter official…

Officially decided to Gopher it! 🌟University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, PhD in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration with an area of emphasis in sociology of health and illness!!! 🥳 @PublicHealthUMN

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Causal modeling limits our theoretical and analytical imagination regarding racial inequality. Settler colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade caused racial inequality. Our job now is to understand the mechanisms maintaining racial inequality.

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

This just happened to me too!

[Breanna Rogers @breannajrogers]

First time getting rejected for a poster presentation at conference, Goes to show how rejection is a constant in academia 🤷🏾‍♀️

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

@DuBoisReview @tundealabi20 @CUP_PoliSci So excited to give this a read!

[globalperks✨ @globalperks_]

My Friends are Doctorssssssss

[Marius Kothor, Ph.D. @MariusKothor]

Idk when it’s going to fully click for me but I’m constantly dismayed by the number of academics who build their careers on the lived experiences of Black ppl & yet have absolutely no investment/interest in the wellbeing of the Black folx they know. Shockingly extractive.

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

@robynbriaadams Congrats!! Enjoy, you deserve this! Can’t wait to see what comes out of this period ✨

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.

Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at https://t.co/8XlteewbRp - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Years ago I moved away from saying "White people" or "Black people," etc to saying "people racialized as ..." bc race categories are settlers' tools. We cannot adequately address racial inequality by using the tools settlers created to justify inequality.

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

@ElleLett Obsessed with this look 🔥

[Dr. Kene Loading… @pennekene]

*sips tea*

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Racism is a distraction. Most critical race scholars want to show how that distraction is intricately linked to the making and maintenance of racial inequality. But most conventional scholars get in their feelings cuz they are contributors to the distraction

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

Really cannot overstate the mental health impact of spending 11 years getting 3 degrees to become an expert in the intricacies of how intersecting systems of oppression produce suffering and then having your job just be thinking about oppression and suffering all day every day

[Dr. Rashmi Kumari @Rashmish]

It's alarming that another scholar used my dissertation proposal as an abstract for a grant award. Though my thesis moved beyond the proposal, how do we protect our work, especially when grad students and junior scholars are repeatedly advised to share our ideas and works?

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

What’s there to even say at this point?

In the country with the highest rates of pregnancy-related deaths and severe morbidity of any high-income nation, more pregnant people will die preventable deaths or suffer from the lifelong effects of near-death experiences.

[stefanie lyn kaufman-mthimkhulu @stefkaufman]

If you take a radical community program + then tightly regulate it/squeeze the life out of it to comply to the expectations and demands of the carceral state so you can “make a change in the system” — 1) it’s no longer the same program & 2) you’re not “achieving” what you think.

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

Death by climate crisis.
Death by abortion ban.
Death by police violence.
Death by ethnic cleansing.
Death by state execution.
Death by COVID.
Death by school shooting.
Death by deportation.
Death by transphobia.

And we don’t have a concrete plan to stop any of it.

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Many social science disciplines over-invested in quantitative methods at the expense of accurately and adequately historicizing, conceptualizing, and theorizing racism.

This is why you think that race is a demographic and control variable in quant methods.

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

“We cannot liberate abortion with just feel-good vibes…we believe reproductive justice and abolition are the keys to liberating abortion. Liberation calls for an investment in people and families.”

—@RBraceySherman + @byreginamahone in their brand new book Liberating Abortion