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A large number of pre-med students of color from around the country ask me how to survive being in medicine emotionally/spiritually intact. What we ultimately need is another kind of education, another path. We need spaces of decolonizing in how we learn about and practice 1/n
care work, especially through medicine. The legacy of colonial violence in medicine is in everything we do, in every interaction. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. And then you must ask yourself, what do I do now? For me, artist/thinker/physician/mother/healer, I imagine 2/n
the creation of new spaces. Like @KillerMike knows to have Black wealth, we must have Black banks. To have BIPOC health, we must have places were the training and understanding is cultivated from the outset, not added on as some sort of way for white supremacist institutions 3/m
to try to look less invested in maintaining white supremacy while actually continuing to maintain it. We need new structures, new imaginings, new relationships. Built on several ways of knowing, a diversity of knowledges, a place where health and justice are never dissected 4/n
away from each other, because justice is a prerequisite for health. To the young doctors-to-be, I'm here with you in this work. It is trauma to become a physician, as a person of color. It is harmful to be in this dynamic, witnessing and then becoming the oppressor yourself. 5/n
You must be deeply literate in histories of power and cultivate and keep tools to compost your grief, collectively and in your own spirit. You must know how to move through it until we build Another Way. Together. All love to the young warrior-healers. In healing with you. 
Shout out to my teachers. So much love. @corrina_gould @PovertySkola @nancypili @qu3tzalli_415 @EQUIPTO @carroll_fife @PollinateFarm @farmtheroof @_Tongogara_ @walterphillip @CatsCommentary
So much love. @corrina_gould @PovertySkola @nancypili @qu3tzalli_415 @EQUIPTO @carroll_fife @PollinateFarm @farmtheroof @_Tongogara_ @walterphillip @CatsCommentary
