Katie Bala

student of life 💫 citizen of earth 🌎

[Katie Bala @slowlykatie]

@BuzzingPop Ox

[Emily Porter, M.D. @dremilyportermd]

I had a guy friend with a Ph.D in engineering ask me last week how women pee with a tampon in and this is why men shouldn’t be passing laws about women’s bodies.

[@bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab]

universities: we have ~cutting edge~ technology

also universities: this admin process requires you to download a .doc file and then either print it and scan it or use the crayon tool to sign

[Ebony Jade Hilton, MD @EbonyJHilton_MD]

It starts as a “simple infection” until YEARS later it becomes:

Long HIV…AIDS
Long HPV…Cervical Cancer
Long EBV…Multiple Sclerosis
Long HSV…Alzheimer’s
Long HCV…Liver Cancer

CURRENTLY 1 in 13 Americans already have #LongCOVID.

We don’t know how this story ends
Wear a mask

[Doctors For Defunding Police @DrsDefundPolice]

Unpopular Fact: The hardest working people in our society tend to be the poorest.

[Scott Bayer #THEBOOKCHAT co-founder @Lyricalswordz]

Alexa, show me collective community care

[Doctors For Defunding Police @DrsDefundPolice]

Reminder: There are currently more Indigenous children in “child welfare” now than there were in Residential schools at their peak.

The genocide has never ended.

[Sara Schonfeld @SaraSchon]

I had a therapist who once told me, “if you don’t schedule a break, your body will take one for you. And it probably won’t be at a convenient time.”

[Doctors For Defunding Police @DrsDefundPolice]

~8% of the city of Toronto is Black but over 40% of the children apprehended by Children’s Aid Society are Black.

[Toronto gay @wheatpoolboy]

98% (girls) and 96% (boys) of incarcerated youths in Saskatchewan are Indigenous. How are you not a prison abolitionist?

[Gaibrie Stephen @SGaibrie]

Hospitals should have supervised consumption spaces.

If my patients outside the hospital in other settings like shelters have access to supervised consumption spaces, why can't my patients admitted to hospital?

This is a policy choice and it limits access to healthcare.

[Doctors For Defunding Police @DrsDefundPolice]

There isn’t enough counselling or medication in the world that will fix the mental & psychological trauma caused by living in poverty

[ehime ora @ehimeora]

The caterpillar can only form its chrysalis when it stays still. The butterfly is only born after the slow moments.

Feeling stuck or stagnant is actually the precursor for incredible change.

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

I don't think I'll ever understand why adults are expected to give up having fun and playing.

Play and having fun are such big motivators, especially for folks who generally struggle with executive dysfunction

[Shannon Sevigny @ShannonSevigny]

Been reflecting a lot lately on the pressures for women to "perform politeness" and how exhausting these expectations are

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Ableism created the “special needs” of disabled people and then deemed us a burden for having human needs.