A BLACK PHYSICIAN’S UNSPARING examination of the profound impact racism has on healthcare and health outcomes intertwines with stories of her own, her sister’s, and her mother’s lives as doctors. Thoughtful, deep, engaging. A MINUS
"How does one recuperate lives entangled with and impossible to differentiate from the terrible utterances that condemned them to death, the account books that identified them as units of value, the invoices that claimed them as property, and the banal chronicles that stripped them of human features?"
kinda wild how cultural appropriation has become sort of a punchline as far as it being construed as, like, unreasonable sjw discourse, because we generally accept that plagiarism is wrong
I feel this insensitivity to the way black embodiment in particular is adopted and appropriated (hairstyles, aesthetics, expressions, language, etc) reflects how the black body itself is typically treated and perceived as in the US and beyond--seen as expendable, extractable, and usable as mediums of self-expression, -fulfillment, -enjoyment, et cetera.
Title is "Three Theories of Black Women's #History"
The purpose of this zine is to serve as a primer for the study of the history of Black women in the United States.
The three theories are helpful for anyone interested in the study of #BlackStudies, #BlackHistory, and #BlackWomensHistory in particular. There's also a recommended reading list at the end. Link's in the next post.
I'm Andrea, PhD student in #BlackStudies at UT Austin. Research interests include #Resistance and #Hoodoo. Right now doing a project on Black midwifery and reproductive justice.
Before UT, I taught Spanish for five years. Sometimes, I make #Art, and I would love to be a curator one day.
I am a queer black femme and I prioritize the voices of queer black and indigenous folks. Happy to be here!
Condescension and white/male hostility get muted in these parts.
I want to share a little about my research as a PhD student in #BlackStudies.
A very brief summary: My focus is on black midwives during the time of enslavement, uplifting their lives and stories, and analyzing their complicated statuses. I'm thinking that sharing lil toots about my project here and there would be cute. Also I'm procrastinating preparing for a presentation I have to give about it Friday.
So the first midwife I'm gonna tell y'all about is Katy Elmore.