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1. In the coming months on Twitter, we’ll be taking a look at how white supremacy impacts the way marginalized communities experience death and access death care.
2. Inspired by the Teach-in movement of the 1960s, this series is intended both to educate and inform through social, political, and historical teachings, and to work toward participation and direct action.
3. Each teach-in cycle will have a theme on which we’ll be sharing selected articles, videos, art, and media, as well as actionable solutions, or ways to support change.
4. Cycle One: The Intersection of Medicine and The Black Body. Learn how the medical field that your life and health benefits from, was built upon the backs of enslaved people, resulting in their deaths, tourture, and desecration of the dead
Here’s your first read for this cycle:
It is time to acknowledge this dark truth behind our understanding of human anatomy and modern medicine.
#OrderTeachIn https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/cadavers-slavery-medical-schools.html
It is time to acknowledge this dark truth behind our understanding of human anatomy and modern medicine.
#OrderTeachIn https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/cadavers-slavery-medical-schools.html
Next up, a video detailing the dark history of race and women’s medicine https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/12/7/16746790/health-care-black-history-inequality
Artist Doreen Garner forces audiences to face the profound racism underlying the work of Dr. J. Marion Sims the "father of modern gynecology,” who performed torturous procedures on enslaved Black women without anesthesia or consent https://www.artandobject.com/video/doreen-garner-sculpts-our-trauma
