This is horrific and many of the ways we've known medical and police collude to enact racialised state violence on ppl of colour, esp when they're most vulnerable. There's no public health w/out addressing the racism & violence its complicit in 1/3 https://twitter.com/ShareefaEnergy/status/1289853014728220672?s=20
Our movements need real talk and building action on DNR (do not resuscitate) and end of life to protect communities of colour. Given the explicit disposability of racialised lives and how this has been & is 'medically' justified & enabled the permissibility of state violence 1/2
Christina Sharpe's powerful, In the Wake @hystericalblkns helps reflect on this & how the continued racialised violence (particularly on Black lives) requires honesty in living in the wake 'with no state or nation to protect us' & how this honesty can capaciously transform 1/3
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