teaetlivres

[teaetlivres]

I always knew AfterEllen.com was cryptoTERF trash but looks like they’re really showing where they stand now.

[teaetlivres]

[teaetlivres]

10.07.17 // my sense of time is so messed, I typed 10.06.10 instead of 10.07.17

ig: kaiistudies (I’ve been more active here due to school so do check it out!!)

[teaetlivres]

Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.

Fares on trains, trams and buses will be lifted next summer under the plans of the re-elected coalition government led by Xavier Bettel, who was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Wednesday.

Bettel, whose Democratic party will form a government with the leftwing Socialist Workers’ party and the Greens, had vowed to prioritise the environment during the recent election campaign.

Continue Reading.

[teaetlivres]

24.11.18

i can’t believe i’m *~that~* person now but i absolutely love scribbling and scrawling in my new books, it’s SO much easier to understand the content if you can make notes right next to the text you’re learning. 

[teaetlivres]

the Black Forest is a thing of beauty

[teaetlivres]

IB in a few days. been so busy.

[teaetlivres]

[teaetlivres]

[teaetlivres]

Another week, another bujo spread! I went for a lil blue/green theme, ft some Kingdom of Ash quote cause I’m obsessed. Have a lovely and productive day!

[teaetlivres]

🎄Last week of classes has been hectic but my Christmas vibes are keeping me alive🎄

[teaetlivres]

Is this how you take artsy bullet journal pics?

Bopping to the works of St. Hildegard von Bingen. Did you know she was Spotify’s 69th featured composer for Women’s History Month? Wild.

[teaetlivres]

Dec. 06. 2018

[ig : teaetlivres]

Relaxing with a cup of tea, but I still have to study for my nursing exams 😤 I'll do my best!

[teaetlivres]

NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh speaks out against Justin Trudeau’s government using anti worker-back to work legislation against striking Canada Post workers who are on strike trying to improve safety, work-life balance and pay-equity.

All NDP MP’s walked out of Parliament in protest tonight:

https://twitter.com/NDP/status/1066151020760313856

[teaetlivres]

Gender identity made headlines in Ontario this week, after a Progressive Conservative resolution introduced at a weekend party convention called the theory a “highly controversial, unscientific ‘liberal ideology.’”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford quashed it days later, but behavioural neuroscientist Sari van Anders argues that the relationship between sex, gender and biology has long been understood to be more than a simple male-or-female binary.

“The idea of female and male brains is outdated and never reflected the science,” van Anders, the Canada 150 research chair in social neuroendocrinology, sexuality and gender/sex at Queen’s University, told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald.

Continue Reading.

[teaetlivres]

09.13.18 // why do I leave everything til the last minute

[teaetlivres]

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.