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Decolonizing Medicine

Psychiatric diagnoses & bioessentialism will not liberate us
Letting go of my attachment to individual diagnostic labels is part of my decolonizing journey
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Ayesha Khan, Ph.D.
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Our distress & mental health issues are not caused by biological defects
It's colonialism, not chemical imbalances
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Palestinian resistance is decolonized medicine in practice
Fighting for the health & safety of our communities... by any means necessary
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Finding home amidst transition: learning from the migration experience
How can we co-create "home" in liminal spaces?
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gabes torres
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People who go to therapy aren't inherently better than those who don't
On the weaponization of therapy + Our relationships can be therapeutic!
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There is no medication/ drug/ quick fix that can heal us in isolation. We need community.
Moving beyond the "drugs are good/ bad" binary to a more collectivist, complex approach to healing
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Inflammatory disorders, pain & chronic illnesses- capitalism's impact on our bodies
Watch now + Ecological disasters are Earth's chronic illnesses. The SAME systems are making us & the land sick.
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Seasons aren't causing our depression, capitalism is. Let's reimagine solutions.
'Seasonal Affective Disorder' or humans forced to work & unable to adapt to nature?
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Decolonizing= abolishing bioessentialism & the neurodivergent/ neurotypical binary
What does neurodivergent mean exactly?
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Destigmatize Suicide: An abolitionist, harm reduction approach to the right to live & die
Suicide is caused by oppressive systems & also isn't a mental disorder or an immoral, irrational choice
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Racism, not race, is a risk factor for certain diseases
Workshop: Understanding how the modern capitalist healthcare system is part of colonial oppression
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Science is not objective or apolitical
Science isn't "neutral", it's an oppressive system shaped by global power dynamics
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