Over the weekend, I binged watched all of the episodes of Netflix original series Dear White People, Season 2. I want to share share my thoughts about Chapter 4, when the character Coco Conners must confront the fact she is pregnant. I think the episode was northing short of brilliant, starting with Coco’s unsuccessful attempt to find any results to an …
Happy New Year!! Maybe. I know I have taken some time away. I needed to determine how best to respond to the changes occurring in our country. I realize I may not be able to completely articulate my thoughts but I will start the conversation and invite my colleagues to join me and keep the conversation going. I am also …
For some time, I have contemplated about the paucity and invisibility of Black trans and non trans women in the promotion and utilization of Preexposure Prophlyaxis, PrEP, [a method of preventing the acquisition of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by HIV negative individual taking daily antiretroviral medication before exposure]. Most of the PrEP trainings I attend are facilitated by non Black …
I am a Southern Black cisgender woman physician scientist, with board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology, who pursued medicine with the intention and motivation of achieving race and gender equity and inclusion in medicine and healthcare for Black poor women and girls in urban. Along the way, omission and oppression met me in unimaginable, intricate and complex ways that were neglected in my formal …