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When talking about #DecolonizingGlobalHealth, we often talk about institutional reform and dismantling of systems but we forget to recognize the smaller but powerful actions that are just as important. A thread : 1/7
When we talk about decolonizing, we DON'T mean forming yet another 'Task Force' to target institutional racism.
Take the time to LISTEN to your Black and Brown faculty and students as they share their lived experiences. DO NOT use them for more labor and show up for them. 2/7
Take the time to LISTEN to your Black and Brown faculty and students as they share their lived experiences. DO NOT use them for more labor and show up for them. 2/7
When we talk about decolonizing, we DON'T mean encouraging yet another white person to teach a 'Decolonizing Global Health' course but instead encouraging a safe space so everyone can engage in critical race and decolonial theory together at their own pace. 3/7
When we talk about decolonizing, we DON'T mean shutting the efforts of student groups down and telling them that they are "too young" or "too passionate" but instead RESPECTING their thoughts and ideas and providing them the opportunities to progress. 4/7
When we talk about decolonizing, we DON'T mean using unpaid student interns for labor and then not crediting them for the word they did. We mean giving equal, and DESERVED credit for the work that they did. 5/7
When we talk about Decolonizing, we DON'T mean valuing your international students/colleagues for their grasp of the English language. Support them in their work, recognize the need to transcend from the colonial legacies of knowledge production. 6/7
Please feel free to join me by adding your own DON'Ts and DO's, these are just some thoughts after a particularly grueling day spent justifying why #DecolonizingGlobalHealth is intrinsic to everything we do in the field of Global Public Health and beyond. 7/7
