@mi_niles i feel you. theres no starting over… if that means erasure and numbing ourselves to recurrent capitalist crises and atrocities. but as someone who youve touched, you are doing so much to lead, love and guide. to building a different world
Pay Us = pay equity in midwifery is about gender equity. period. i dont' want to hear about cost savings -- pay us what we are worth , pay us what we save you @nyc_midwives@NYSALM@ACNMmidwives
Are you on an all white woman panel? How is this still happening? In healthcare? In 2021? It’s not hard , look around, ask the organizers, say no, being an ally is a verb - not a title. PS - it’s very hard to find a gif of an Indian woman rolling her 👀
We still aren't talking enough about the long-term effects this pandemic is already having on healthcare workers as society betrays them yet calls them heroes and expects them to smile about how the populace couldn't do the bare minimum.
Delia Lange Cyrus worked for 40 years as a nurse & midwife in Louisiana where as a supervisor to lay midwives across the unique ethnic spectrum created by French, Spanish, & English American slavery, she faced threats from above & below for a mulatto nurse to teach white midwives
I went to Johns Hopkins w a full ride. There and in all ruling class academic institutions, the oppressor's version of history reigns supreme: an unqualified reverence for white "founders." Let's rewrite our stories. No honor for racism #BLM#JohnsHopkins
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#BringBackCliff bring him back to his job in the Emergency Room, @AllinaHealth! Can't believe these corporate systems are FIRING nurses for demanding our protection
Just made the jump to Medium. I have too much to say.
I wrote this piece in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wasn't brave enough to publish it then.
I am now.
The Moment I Became Radicalized: https://t.co/nOUHjSxXkK
"High Risk." We should ask, who is safe from white supremacy, police brutality, coronavirus, capitalist exploitation, climate catastrophe? https://t.co/GShFDBxmhf
I keep thinking how in the ER when someone rolls in gasping "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" we all jump to our feet and run to assess and help them. It's #1 and 2 of our "ABC's" - Airway, Breathing, Circulation - that comes before any other concern.
Witnesses allege that Jacob Blake (aka #JakeBlake) was shot in front of his children. We must ask why police officers continue to use lethal force against unarmed Black people.