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Joyce Echaquan, and what her name asks of us
From Joyce Echaquan to myths about pain: understanding why being believed is already a health issue.
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Racialized but human.
Care begins before medicine: it begins when we believe another person's pain.
The thread
In hospitals, in schools, on the street: being believed, being respected, being seen as a whole person.
22 articles · each in four movements: a scene, a documented case, a voice, a question
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health
The invisible gears: pain that isn't believed
False beliefs about Black people's bodies still circulate in medicine. They change the way their pain is measured.
ReadMontreal
May my curiosity be a form of care: SLĀV and cultural appropriation
In 2018, the show SLĀV divided Montreal. An opportunity to ask how to borrow from a culture without erasing its history.
Readjustice
Staying with discomfort: the suspicion that sticks to your skin
In Montreal, as elsewhere in Canada, young Black people are more often arrested and suspected. Numbers that disturb us, and that ask us to listen.
Readhistory
The mirror: one species, very real categories
Science confirms it: human races do not exist in biology. Racism, however, invented categories that still wound.
Readyouth
The unspoken: seeing yourself through others' eyes
The Clarks' doll test showed how children end up believing the prejudices held about them. Naming this internalized racism helps free us from it.
ReadQuebec
The weight of little phrases
"Where are you really from?" One by one, microaggressions seem harmless. Added up, they weigh. Research confirms it.
Readhealth
Thirty-four hours in a waiting room
In Winnipeg, in 2008, Brian Sinclair died without ever being treated. His story reminds us that being seen is already a form of care.
Readwomen
The right to say no
In Quebec, First Nations and Inuit women were sterilized without true consent. Their words call for practices to change.
Readhealth
Time given back
In the United States, a kidney function calculation adjusted for race delayed transplants. It was withdrawn, and then the lost time was given back.
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Driving without being a suspect
A young Black Montrealer, often pulled over for no reason, took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. The courts recognized racial profiling.
Readhealth
Montréal-Nord, at the heart of the first wave
In the spring of 2020, Montreal's Blackest and poorest neighbourhoods were the hardest hit by COVID-19.
Readhealth
When the device doesn't see the skin
Pulse oximeters can overestimate blood oxygen in people with darker skin. A bias hidden in an ordinary object.
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