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Chill of the Wild .2023

Guess everyone is having fun in “Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” right now!

Do not use the artwork without permission ❗️

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I’m feelin sunset vibes

Purple skies

Lofi naps on the couch

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An Unusual Night…

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What a woe to be a woman

O what a woe to be a woman,

a garden island plush with trees,

and the tallest mountains reaching the stars,

seaglass on the beach glimmers in the sun.

But what a woe to be a woman,

when man comes in torpedoes to hack away,

claiming in loud chants the prospects of paper, cardboard and a neat wooden coffee table.

What a woe to be a woman,

when someone else climbs her mountains and snatches awa,y

every last star left in the galaxy.

What a woe to be a woman,

when the weight of a fellow woman's boot cracks even her sturdiest seaglass,

No sun or star can reflect on her now.

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They say my ancestors fought for my tongue to speak in my mother language,

They shed blood and sacrificed their lives so that I may one day freely denounce evil in the comfort of my home language,

Then why is it that as each day passes, I forget a new word in Bangla,

That I’ve forgotten the names of the vowels in Bangla,

That when my prayers to Allah pour from my soul, they’re more and more in English than Bangla?

Why do I lay awake at night fearing that my children will not speak Bangla naturally?

That when I pass away, my grandchildren will not recognize the poetry of my people?

That they will forget where they are from?

That they will be homeless in their own Bangla bodies?

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The riots burning down all these business establishments is quite symbolic. This is because capitalism as it is in America will never help those of color. Capitalism in this country gives power to those who already have power, money to those who already have money. And in turn, those who have that power and money use it to fuel the oppression of black people and POC. They use it to keep the system the same.

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Learning Racial Profiling in Medical School

As a medical student, you are taught to look at all the signs and symptoms of a patient and use those as clues to come to a diagnostic hypothesis, then use tests and evidence to confirm that diagnosis in order to treat your patient. You are being taught to be a medical detective.

In the course of my three years of medical school thus far, I have been trained to work through thousands of medical vignettes as a detective. In these vignettes, the race of the patient is never mentioned unless it is relevant to the case and points you to a certain diagnosis. The African American patient almost always has sickle cell anemia or sarcoidosis. The Asian patient will always have nasopharyngeal carcinoma or alpha thalasemia. Otherwise, race is not mentioned in the vignette. It is deemed irrelevant. Through tens of thousands of questions, my brain is being primed to use race and ethnicity as a sign of disease. Yet, during my clinical rotations, I came across hundreds of patients of color who didn’t present this way. Not one of my African American patients had sarcoidosis. It was not beneficial to me as a student clinician to walk into the room, see an African American patient, and immediately have sarcoid, sickle cell, diabetes, heart disease run through my brain, like a subconscious bias. In fact, that probably closed me off to a multitude of other things that should’ve be on my differential.

Yes, there may be a racial correlation with certain disease, but often times its more than racial, its socioeconomic and beyond. Why have we not discussed the socioeconomic determinants of health? Why do I not get any UWorld questions on that? Why is race only relevant in questions where there is a “racial disease”? Why do these questions not acknowledge the patients of color who get other diseases like regular old COPD?

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books to educate yourself about black history and struggle in America

disclaimer: I’m white. I’m white as snow. My ancestors came to America from Scotland before the war for Independence. My other ancestors came from Germany. I’m THAT white. So if there’s any books that I should take off the list or add, please let me know!! 

- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

- The Autobiography of Malcolm X

- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin

- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love

-  How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

-  Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

-  Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

- Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System by Cyntoia Brown-Long, Bethany Mauger

- Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell

- At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

cool so now you have resources to learn from! so stop asking black people to rec you books when you could, I don’t know…google it?? :) stop asking ppl like @blackgrad to educate you when you can do it yourself :))) hi it’s me your friendly education major I’ll teach you as best as I can!!!

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Do you know what a sign of an abusive relationship is? Cutting off the victim from their friends and family. Isolating the victim from their support.

Donald Trump cutting us out from the WHO and from the global community is a sign of an abusive relationship. This is authoritarianism.

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An Homage to Cha

Cha is the magical milky elixir of my people

Add water and cha patha, bring to rolling boil

Ask yourself, what does my soul need today?

A little elachi pep?

Darchini for that bitter brain?

Maybe some podina patha to help you digest your problems?

Add milk to balance out the flavors

Bring it all together

Pour in a cup, or maybe two for a friend

Stir in the cheenee, maybe a little extra today, you deserve it

Add toast biskoot for a synergistic healing effect

And enjoy.

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Wonderful piece

Art by PascalCampion

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Think about where life is taking you…

Art by Cassandra Jean

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“…a lonely evening smelling of books,”

— Pentti Saarikoski, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “What’s Going On Really,”

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Virginia Woolf, The Years