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Baby Girl
Kalar, most racialized than ever, is a term in Burmese used to describe brown people. “Why would you surround yourself with dirty Kalars?” my Grandfather criticized me when my closest friends left, creating a seam of otherness between our evening tea discussions.
At fourteen years old, I was acutely aware of the violent ethnic cleansing campaigns
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Emotional Wound: A LEARNING DISABILITY
"Would diagnosis matter so much in a world where all people and patients had more power – one where we did not have to constantly prove ourselves to employers, to medical professionals and to the benefits system to get our fundamental needs met? A system of social organisation in which healthcare and other healing processes centred informed
... See moreI remember Ashley, who at thirteen years of age was being treated for a sexually transmitted disease. Her parents were crushed. They were angry with Ashley. They were upset with the school, which they blamed for teaching her about sex. “Why would she do this?” they asked. In my conversation with Ashley, she told me of her parents’ divorce when she
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