A sanctuary for critical and compassionate analyses and conversations about the overlapping and reciprocating ways that race, gender, sex, class, age and trauma mutually interconnect to inform, facilitate, and sustain power and differences in the policies, programs and practices in public health, healthcare and research.
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 …