hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:
he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man
he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?
when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times
the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)
he’s still alive!
hark, a hero of our times!
Remember: If he’s still alive, probably some of those guys surrounding him are, too. Alive and voting.
if you’re not committed to antiracism, you’re not a good doctor.
I remember when I had pneumonia I was so sick and exhausted and in pain that I couldn’t get out of bed for *days* — I eventually pushed myself to walk across campus to the doctor’s office (it took me literally 45 minutes to walk there bc I had to walk so slow) and when I got there…the doctor made it seem I was only trying to get out of writing an exam lol. I was too embarrassed to tell her that I was going to be withdrawing from the class anyway bc I hadn’t had the energy to get to lectures at all that semester. She lectured me about how she sees students do this all the time and she can’t take a risk in trusting me when the only thing that was wrong with me was exhaustion. “We all have off days” is what she said lolol.
I was so humiliated at her insinuation that I eventually just nodded when she said it “didn’t seem like I had any issues” and went back home. It wasn’t until I fainted walking down the hallway like 4 feet outside my apartment that I started panicking and called someone to take me to the hospital. When I got there even the receptionists looked genuinely pale to see how hard it was for me to walk and how much it hurt to breathe or talk.
It would take *6* different antibiotics for the really advanced pneumonia to finally die out, the last of which was delivered intravenously in my arm for 10 continuous days — I still have the scar where the initial IV was and I have another mark on my wrist. I *literally* couldn’t walk or lay on my back for 8-9 weeks. I would sleep sitting up with pillows on a chair and when my breath would involuntarily deepen as I started to fall asleep I would jerk awake bc of the sharp pain my lung where the pneumonia was.
That same doctor who thought I was lying about being sick would then call me like 34 times in a row when my blood test results came to her office and the hospital sent her my chest x rays lolol, obviously worried about looking bad and having called me a liar and sending me home when I had such a serious bout of pneumonia.
In the 3rd year of my premed degree I would learn that doctors in North America — and specifically white women in nursing lol — often see south Asian women as malingerers who exaggerate their pain. In a UK study there were neonatal nurses who went so far as to say that south Asian women also lack maternal instincts, care more about their pain meds than their child and “can’t handle” child birth.
Yosif al Hasnawi — an Iraqi Canadian teen — died at the hands of two paramedics who did not believe he had been shot and claimed he was “acting” when he was actually internally bleeding. They made him walk to the ambulance with a bullet in his stomach, from which he would later die after not being transported to the hospital for 38 minutes.
Just yesterday My cousin, totally healthy, just died of a brain hemorrhage and often complained about ongoing migraines that could’ve been telltale signs of hypertension that were totally ignored by her doctor for years.
and just a day before that Kim porter who was otherwise healthy just died of pneumonia while having expressed her symptoms and pain to doctors for days — I would say that I’m shocked by this but the implications faced by brown people and racism in the healthcare system is 10x worse for black women who are often seen as liars and in it for the meds as a result of historical anti blackness and systemic rejection of black patients’ pain.
doctors are literally trained to perceive racialized people as malingerers who are trying to scam for meds or medical attention instead of people in pain. It’s 100% systemic and actually integrated into medical education.
He was among an untold number of people who have revolted against the
Italian fashion brand that built its reputation on the ability to make
Sicilian widows’ weeds sexy. Earlier this week, the company released
video clips widely seen as racist, pandering to old stereotypes (they
featured a Chinese model being taught to eat spaghetti, pizza and a
cannoli with chopsticks) in advance of a planned extravaganza of a show
in Shanghai. Then Stefano Gabbana, a company co-founder and designer,
appears to have engaged in a bout of insulting name-calling (including
suggesting that the Chinese eat dogs) with a critic on Instagram.
Gabbana said his account was hacked.
…
Various fashion brands have been previously accused of cultural mistakes
or insults. Australians took Chanel to task for its sale of a luxury
boomerang. Zara was accused of using Nazi and alt-right hate symbolism
on their products. Just this week Dior came under fire for ads featuring
Jennifer Lawrence while purporting to celebrate Mexican heritage.
Still, the Dolce incident is the first time this kind of misstep has had
such global repercussions.
Spokespeople for Secoo and Net-a-Porter could not remember either
company ever dropping a brand for such reasons before. As Angelica
Cheung, editor of Vogue China, wrote in an email, “This case is a
wake-up call: a 1.4 billion population is for sure a huge consumption
power, but if you don’t get it right, hundreds of millions of people
voicing their outrage on social media is a powerful force, hard to
ignore.”
Dolce & Gabbana released three statements, first saying its accounts
had been hacked, then offering words of support for the people who
worked on the cancelled show and declarations of love for China. But it
wasn’t until the end of the week that the founders officially apologised
in a video in Mandarin. They seemed to have underestimated the
importance of Chinese national identity while also overestimating their
place in the wider fashion ecosystem.
…
The hacking excuse, which could have been accepted at face value as a
way for supporters to embrace the brand, has had almost no traction, in
part because of Gabbana’s history of hitting back at any criticism of
the brand on his Instagram feed. Though traditionally the brand has
seemed impervious to such controversies – indeed, has seemed to thrive
on being politically incorrect – this time is different.
…
In the eyes of many in the international community, Gabbana has become
the designer who cried wolf. You can’t take on everyone from Selena
Gomez to gay parents with bluster and venom and then claim you were
hacked and expect to be believed.
…
The brand’s track record of insensitivity has not helped. Dolce has
been called out in recent years for labelling a US$2,395 pair of shoes
“slave sandals” (in 2016; they later changed the name to the more
innocuous “decorative flat sandal”) and including earrings that looked
like they were made of blackamoor faces in a 2012 collection. They have
also banned a number of critics from shows (The Times has not been
invited to a Dolce show for more than a decade; Women’s Wear Daily, W
magazine, Italian Vogue and Vanity Fair have also been rejected at
various times).
Dolce & Gabbana is also the only major Italian
brand that has refused to join the Camera Nazionale della Moda
Italiano, Italian fashion’s governing organisation and lobbying group,
and does not appear on the official Milan Fashion Week schedule. As a
result, Carlo Capasa, president of the Camera della Moda, which has
always been fiercely protective of Italian brands and industry and which
might have been expected to come to the brand’s defence, simply said he
couldn’t make a statement about the situation because Dolce was not a
member.
This is outrageous. How can someone draw a cartoon like this in this day and age and have it published in a major newspaper??
What the shitting goddamn fuck.
Reality:
She put her arm around Osaka to comfort her, and implored the pro-Serena crowd, which was still ticked because chair umpire Carlos Ramos gave her a severe game penalty in the second set of her 6-2, 6-4 loss to Osaka, to stop with the Bronx cheer.
“She just won,” Williams said after the presentation. “I felt like, wow, this isn’t how I felt when I won my first Grand Slam. I definitely don’t want her to feel like that.”
– Time.com
Male cartoonist decides to draw a racist caricature of Williams, completely erase Osaka’s likeness and invoke the age-old sexist idea that women don’t get along.
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