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Say Her Name: Racial Profiling of Black Women During the Pandemic - A Virtual Gathering of Leaders

Watch & follow along-thread 1/ @Wizdomisms @uncCHER
#SayHerName #BreonnaTaylor #EquityinCOVID #ICYMI

2/The pressure has not eased!
Racial disparities in COVID19 are operating in the issues of racial profiling and racial justice. The national conversation is critical to center Black women and girls. To move from
Facts & Evidence

Community Action

Policy & #SystemsChange

3/There is an extreme disparity in maternal mortality health for Black Women in the United States. Here are some jarring statistics, provided by Dr. Amutah- Onukagha @PhDiva0618

4/ It is crucial to acknowledge Black Women in the health inequity narrative. Research has shown that Black Women experience disproportionate chronic diseases susceptibility. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Racial-discrimination-black-women-disease-Berkeley-13300441.php

Racial discrimination linked to higher risk of chronic illness in black women in new study

A new study by researchers at University of California Berkeley found a link between racial discrimination and higher risk for chronic illness in black women.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Racial-discrimination-black-women-disease-Berkeley-13300441.php

5/ We know that systematic racism really plays a role in the exacerbation of disparities that increases the risk of premature death in Black women @DrAmaniAllen1

6/ Exploring how the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation push Black women further to the margins, subjecting them to disparate outcomes.

7/ Addressing health disparities amongst Black women. The personal is political. #SayHerName #EquityInCOVID #RacialEquity @DrAmaniAllen1

8/ Structural violence, we have to implicate the system, just like everybody else. Enough of the violent murders, we need systemic policy change. It's an Indictment of structural system, policies, laws & organizational structure we need to confront. @thePhDandMe

9/Read on:
Death Gap: How inequality Kills by David A. Ansell, MD
and
Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality by Celeste Watkins-Hayes, PhD

10/ “What ties to concept to racial profiling is the disrespect & dismissiveness that we see as less than, we see play out in clinical encounter & in the academy is the same thing we see play out in the prison & in the policing.... No system is immune to racism" @phDiva0618

11/ Read on:
Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System by Tina K. Sacks, PhD
Think about all policies, programs, organizations on the health and well-being of Black Women
#COVID19 #Policing #Housing #CenterBlackWomen

12/ Read on:
Graham, Police Violence, and Health Through a Public Health Lens by Chandra L. Ford @DrChandraFord
https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2020/05/11-FORD.pdf
&
Health Implications of Housing Assignments for Incarcerated Transgender Women by E. Ledesma & Chandra Ford PhD
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305565?journalCode=ajph

13/ To prevent further violence of our communities, of Black men and women, we need systems change in places where we work, get educated, get healthcare, get services and more. The system is broken.
#HoldingSpace4POC #EquityinCOVID #SayHerName

14/ Reinvest money in BIPOC communities- places where police have historically targeted, into community led & community services that are life-affirming.
Only 5% of the 10.3 million arrests are serious.
Steps to reach systemic change in policing? https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a32757152/defund-police-black-lives-matter/

@PaigeJFernandez reminds us that we need to hold our legislators and public figures accountable in order to achieve systematic change for racial equality. #PowerInNumbers #Democracy #SayHerName

Read on:
Racial Discrimination, the Superwoman Schema, and Allostatic Load: Exploring an Integrative Stress-Coping Model Among African American Women
@CherylGiscombe @DrAmaniAllen1 @Wizdomisms http://et.al https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31403707/

Racial Discrimination, the Superwoman Schema, and Allostatic Load: Exploring an Integrative...

Racial discrimination has been linked to allostatic load (i.e., cumulative biological stress) among African American women. However, limited attention has been given to psychosocial processes...

http://et.al

We implore the world to take notice-while we are fighting for brothers, near & dear to us, we can also hold space for #BreonnaTaylor & for all the sisters we have lost. In fighting for racial justice, freedom, & equality, recognize that until we are all free, NONE of us are free.

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