By lauredhel on 9 March, 2010
In the USA, Black women have the highest mortality from breast cancer of any other group, despite the rate of diagnosis of breast cancer being highest in White women. Hispanic women have a lower breast cancer diagnosis incidence than either, but mortality rates are disproportionately high in Hispanic women also. Here are the CDC incidence [...]
Posted in accessibility, intersectionality, medical practice, poverty, race | Tagged black, bmj, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, delay, delays in treatment, hispanic, incidence, local recurrence, mortality, race, racism, radiotherapy, recurrence, recurrent, research, surgery, treatment, USA, white
By abby jean on 24 February, 2010
Recently, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin kicked off a national campaign to tackle mental health in the African-American community. Benjamin explained why a focus on African-Americans is needed: “Mental health problems are particularly widespread in the African-American community. In 2004, nearly 12 percent of African Americans ages 18-25 reported serious psychological distress in the [...]
Posted in blaming, class issues, intersectionality, justice, mental health, race
By lauredhel on 22 February, 2010
Paul Kelly, if you’re not familiar with him, is a bloody marvellous Australian singer-songwriter. Some consider him the “poet laureate of Australian music”. He writes everything from fun-but-pointy ballads – Every Fucking City is one of my favourite anti-hero pieces – to political protest music.
You can read a little about him here at Debbie [...]
Posted in accessibility, othering, politics, race, social attitudes | Tagged aboriginal, indigenous, marginalisation, paul kelly, protest, protest song, resistance, special treatment
By abby jean on 8 February, 2010
A recent study from Columbia University found that of all the health factors they measured, poverty had the greatest negative impact on health. The other factors they looked at included smoking, obesity, lack of health insurance, and binge drinking, all of which had a less significant impact on health outcomes than living in poverty. Poverty, [...]
Posted in class issues, disability activism, intersectionality, policy, politics, poverty, race
By abby jean on 26 January, 2010
A periodic feature in which we highlight some of the more ableist posts and comments in the blogosphere – the things that made us throw up our hands and ask “FOR CEREAL???”
I’m late on this one, but that doesn’t make me any less upset. Cute Overload is one of the best and most regular [...]
Posted in blaming, For Cereal?, language, media and pop culture, mental health, race, social attitudes
By Chally on 25 January, 2010
Previously:
Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom?
Invisible Identities, Part 2: The Default Human
Note:
I’m told that in the American context, when speaking about race, the term “passing” is most associated with black people due to a pretty loaded history. This is not the case where I live, simply because that’s not the history we have with [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, race | Tagged invisible disability, life, personal, race, racism, rethinking social norms
By abby jean on 17 January, 2010
As you’re likely aware, an immensely destructive earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. It was centered in the capital city Port-au-Prince, home to over 2 million residents, and destroyed buildings, food and water systems, hospitals, and seemingly the national government. The information and photos coming out of the country have been disturbing and heartbreaking. [...]
Posted in class issues, justice, medical practice, race, Uncategorized
By Chally on 9 December, 2009
So, I’ve talked about how the notion of the invisible identity is problematic, particularly through the framework of my personal experiences of being “invisibly” disabled and non-white. Now to the flipside of invisibility.
Certain characteristics exist in the societal consciousness as default traits. That is, a person is a man unless they’re pointed out as a [...]
Posted in race, social attitudes | Tagged identity, race, rethinking social norms
By Chally on 25 November, 2009
Before I begin, I’d like to make a note on policing and culture. I’m going to go ahead and assume many of you are American. Please keep in mind that American experiences of race don’t apply everywhere. (What I’m particularly concerned with for the purposes of this post is that I’ve encountered a lot of [...]
Posted in identity, race, social attitudes | Tagged invisible disability, race
By Anna on 17 November, 2009
Take, for example, the case of Jordan River Anderson, a First Nations boy from Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba. Jordan was born with “complex health needs” (this is code for Carey Fineman Ziter Syndrome, a rare muscular disorder) and spent the first two years of his life in hospital. At that point, his doctors agreed that he could go home and live with his family, although he would need continuing care.
Posted in intersectionality, race, social attitudes | Tagged canada, first nations, intersectionality, jordan's principle, race, racism
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