Not the Only One

The BMJ's special issue on racism in medicine reflects the working lives of doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds and the healthcare experiences of ethnic minority patients. This edition focuses on race and its impact on health. It is a timely reflection, as we in the UK try to make sense of the societal upheavals which have convulsed the country in recent times, and in which race, racism, and power have come under close scrutiny.

Trans people miss out on a lot of experiences. But being trans means having a moment when you choose to truly *live* — to step into and inhabitant your body in way most people never experience. We are not like the phoenix; refreshed by fire. We breathe life into what had only been an artificial shell, born for the first time.

People with learning disabilities 'locked up' The organisation has launched a petition urging the Welsh government to take action. The Welsh government denied people were being held "inappropriately". #DisabilityRights #Equity #SDGs #WeAreBillionStrong #AXSChat #LearningDisability #Disability #HumanRights #Poverty #Cinema #Technology https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czkvl8mmyx8o

Ahhh so stating the irrefutable, proven by decades of epidemiological research that Australia is indeed a racist country is apparently worse than the racism itself. A typical gaslighting & deflection bag of tricks from the conservatives. https://t.co/ghc768l1qw / X

So anyway, once I passed by a hotel that had a training for local cops from the US Federal Bureau of Investigations Academy. (Also, NYPD has international offices. Closest for us would be Singapore and iirc Sydney) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/03/australian-undercover-police-autistic-13-year-old-fixation-islamic-state >Counter-terrorism police encouraged an autistic 13-year-old boy in his fixation on Islamic State in an undercover operation after his parents sought h...

This inspiring film is the story of how one woman has come to terms with her life as a survivor of incest. Sexually abused by her father from infancy to early adolescence, Shirley Turcotte is now in her thirties and has succeeded in building a rich and full life. In To a Safer Place, Shirley takes a further step to reconcile her past and present. The film accompanies her as she returns to the people and places of her childhood. Her mother, brothers and sister, all of whom were also caught up ...

Sitting in the conference room of a high-rise office in Perth's CBD, this female businesswoman remembers the time when a simple meeting turned into a nightmare. And she's angry. Angry it happened to her, and angry it keeps happening to professional women just trying to do their job.