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

"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