3/🧵
And WHY might Black women (and men) be angry?

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Mortality in childbirth
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝ Black women in the United States have experienced substantial improvements in health during the last century, yet health disparities persist. These health disparities are in large part a reflection of the inequalities experienced by Black women on a host of social and economic measures. In this paper, we examine the structural contributors to social and economic conditions that create the landscape for persistent health inequities among Black women.❞

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jwh.2020.8868

❝
The UK has one of the lowest maternal mortality ratios in the world. There are, however, glaring and persistent disparities in outcomes for women depending on their ethnicity. Maternal mortality for Black women is currently almost four times higher than for White women.
❞

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/94/report.html

Think it's better in Canada*? WHO KNOWS.
❝
As the U.K and U.S. develop stronger policies to tackle maternal mortality, Canada is being left behind due to its colour-blind approach to medical care and that could be harming Black Canadian mothers.
❝

BUT!
❝
In a key 2016 study informing the issue, researchers from McGill University found that 8.9% of Black women gave birth to pre-term babies, compared to 5.9% of their white peers, examining singleton live births for 2004 through 2006.
❞

https://www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/where-canadas-data-black-maternal-health-and-mortality

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00225-3/fulltext

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/black-women-canada-higher-risk-preterm-births-256639

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
General Health Care
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

You might want to check the date on this:
❝
Half of white medical trainees believe such myths as black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings than white people. An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.
❞
https://www.aamc.org/news/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

❝
Racism constitutes a barrier towards achieving equitable healthcare as documented in research showing unequal processes of delivering, accessing, and receiving healthcare across countries and healthcare indicators. This review summarizes studies examining how racism is discussed and produced in the process of delivering, accessing and receiving healthcare across various national contexts.
❞

In Canada, the worst service tends to be directed at Indigenous people, but the bullshit affects others:

❝
From the rating activity, racialized health care users reported ‘race’/ethnic based discrimination or everyday racism as largely contributing to the challenges experienced when receiving health care; statements rated high for action/change include ‘when the health care provider does not complete a proper assessment’, ‘when the patient’s symptoms are ignored or not taken seriously’, ‘and ‘when the health care provider belittles or talks down to the patient’.
❞

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-021-01410-9

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Racism and
General Health
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝
A 2019 research reviewTrusted Source found positive associations between reports of racial discrimination and many physical and mental health conditions, as well as preclinical indicators for disease.

These include:

▪︎ cardiovascular disease
▪︎ coronary artery calcification
▪︎ mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and psychosis)
▪︎ obesity
▪︎ hypertension (high blood pressure)
▪︎ alcohol use and misuse
▪︎ engaging in high-risk behaviors
▪︎ poorer sleep
▪︎ inflammation
▪︎ cortisol dysregulation (a hormone that regulates stress levels in the body)
❞

Based in part on:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532402/

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

________

* Don't be a fucking #RichardBilkszto

3/🧵
And WHY might Black women (and men) be angry?

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Mortality in childbirth
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝ Black women in the United States have experienced substantial improvements in health during the last century, yet health disparities persist. These health disparities are in large part a reflection of the inequalities experienced by Black women on a host of social and economic measures. In this paper, we examine the structural contributors to social and economic conditions that create the landscape for persistent health inequities among Black women.❞

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jwh.2020.8868

❝
The UK has one of the lowest maternal mortality ratios in the world. There are, however, glaring and persistent disparities in outcomes for women depending on their ethnicity. Maternal mortality for Black women is currently almost four times higher than for White women.
❞

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/94/report.html

Think it's better in Canada*? WHO KNOWS.
❝
As the U.K and U.S. develop stronger policies to tackle maternal mortality, Canada is being left behind due to its colour-blind approach to medical care and that could be harming Black Canadian mothers.
❝

BUT!
❝
In a key 2016 study informing the issue, researchers from McGill University found that 8.9% of Black women gave birth to pre-term babies, compared to 5.9% of their white peers, examining singleton live births for 2004 through 2006.
❞

https://www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/where-canadas-data-black-maternal-health-and-mortality

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00225-3/fulltext

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/black-women-canada-higher-risk-preterm-births-256639

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
General Health Care
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

You might want to check the date on this:
❝
Half of white medical trainees believe such myths as black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings than white people. An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.
❞
https://www.aamc.org/news/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

❝
Racism constitutes a barrier towards achieving equitable healthcare as documented in research showing unequal processes of delivering, accessing, and receiving healthcare across countries and healthcare indicators. This review summarizes studies examining how racism is discussed and produced in the process of delivering, accessing and receiving healthcare across various national contexts.
❞

In Canada, the worst service tends to be directed at Indigenous people, but the bullshit affects others:

❝
From the rating activity, racialized health care users reported ‘race’/ethnic based discrimination or everyday racism as largely contributing to the challenges experienced when receiving health care; statements rated high for action/change include ‘when the health care provider does not complete a proper assessment’, ‘when the patient’s symptoms are ignored or not taken seriously’, ‘and ‘when the health care provider belittles or talks down to the patient’.
❞

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-021-01410-9

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Racism and
General Health
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝
A 2019 research reviewTrusted Source found positive associations between reports of racial discrimination and many physical and mental health conditions, as well as preclinical indicators for disease.

These include:

▪︎ cardiovascular disease
▪︎ coronary artery calcification
▪︎ mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and psychosis)
▪︎ obesity
▪︎ hypertension (high blood pressure)
▪︎ alcohol use and misuse
▪︎ engaging in high-risk behaviors
▪︎ poorer sleep
▪︎ inflammation
▪︎ cortisol dysregulation (a hormone that regulates stress levels in the body)
❞

Based in part on:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532402/

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

________

* Don't be a fucking #RichardBilkszto

2/🧵
And what do "Angry Black Women" do? We channel that energy into trying to fix what we can.

What did "Angry Black Women" bring the world?

Among other things:

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
School lunches
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝
School officials immediately reported results in kids who had free breakfast before school. “The school principal came down and told us how different the children were,” Ruth Beckford, a parishioner who helped with the program, said later. “They weren’t falling asleep in class, they weren’t crying with stomach cramps.”
❞

Read how the FBI responded.

https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
Security systems
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿
The police don't respond equally to everyone.

❝ As a nurse, Brown worked long hours and would return home late at night. Her husband, too, had irregular hours so she was often alone at night. Fearful of being vulnerable in a high crime neighborhood, Brown decided to figure out a way to see who was at her door if she heard knocking. ❞

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brown-marie-van-brittan-1922-1999/

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Also:
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

Street sweepers
Natural gas heaters
Cataract treatments

And a whole lot more you either already know, or OUGHT to.

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

2/🧵
And what do "Angry Black Women" do? We channel that energy into trying to fix what we can.

What did "Angry Black Women" bring the world?

Among other things:

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
School lunches
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

❝
School officials immediately reported results in kids who had free breakfast before school. “The school principal came down and told us how different the children were,” Ruth Beckford, a parishioner who helped with the program, said later. “They weren’t falling asleep in class, they weren’t crying with stomach cramps.”
❞

Read how the FBI responded.

https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
Security systems
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿
The police don't respond equally to everyone.

❝ As a nurse, Brown worked long hours and would return home late at night. Her husband, too, had irregular hours so she was often alone at night. Fearful of being vulnerable in a high crime neighborhood, Brown decided to figure out a way to see who was at her door if she heard knocking. ❞

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brown-marie-van-brittan-1922-1999/

✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼
Also:
✊🏼 ✊🏽 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

Street sweepers
Natural gas heaters
Cataract treatments

And a whole lot more you either already know, or OUGHT to.

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

🧵
Time for another Angry Black Woman thread, this time in honour of Erica Ifill.

We all know the rule:
The darker you are, the calmer white people need you to be.

❝
I ask her what she thinks about people who agree with her message, but believe her delivery is ineffective at best, and divisive at worst.

"Fuck my tone... My job is not to placate your feelings, right? Facts, not feelings. What happened to that?" she wonders.❝
❞

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/09/04/yes-erica-ifill-is-angry/396152/

https://archive.ph/yCvxs

Erica is darker, even, than I am.
(And people wonder how #colourism came to be. 🫠)

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

🧵
Time for another Angry Black Woman thread, this time in honour of Erica Ifill.

We all know the rule:
The darker you are, the calmer white people need you to be.

❝
I ask her what she thinks about people who agree with her message, but believe her delivery is ineffective at best, and divisive at worst.

"Fuck my tone... My job is not to placate your feelings, right? Facts, not feelings. What happened to that?" she wonders.❝
❞

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/09/04/yes-erica-ifill-is-angry/396152/

https://archive.ph/yCvxs

Erica is darker, even, than I am.
(And people wonder how #colourism came to be. 🫠)

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman

On a different topic: it's clear the community building+sharing #BlackTwitter lost when it went into the #Xitter is happening on TikTok.

This was inexplicably moving to me. So much so I teared up while I was eating lunch.

I have intellectually understood what the African diaspora meant/means but today was legit the first time I saw myself within it.

Like...The way he put it. The sixth African nation, dispersed, scattered, but still connected. Like an unwilling prodigal.

It hit me hard.

#HailTheSixth
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFed #BlackDiaspora

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8YBELKh/

@lolgop I checked the previous post—gift status expired on the article about the dissolution of #BlackTwitter ; so I hope this works https://wapo.st/44rd8Ta

@lolgop Not sure whether you saw the Washington Post article a couple of weeks ago; there are many people who are convinced EM and other #deadbirdsite investors wanted to destroy the progressive organizing capacity manifested in the #WomensMarch and the #BLM work, but especially #BlackTwitter Certainly, they promote #despair.

Tressie McMillan Cottom on spending Juneteenth with Black Oregonians and Portlanders.

(First...well, do I need to say it? I had no idea! None! Oregon wasn't really founded with diversity in mind, you know?)

Anyway. Her post is awesome. As always.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFed #BlackDiaspora

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwCzCL3qzQp/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Wait.

There's a Bessie Coleman, Rosa Parks, and *Ida B. Wells* #Barbie?!?

What the Black History Month is happening.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFed

I am crying so many tears of laughter watching #BlackTwitter make jokes about the Montgomery brawl where white bros tried to hit a Black ferry operator and got their asses handed to them. This twitter account has collected most of the memes and the original videos.

Cannot believe melon husk is destroying such a joyful place.

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica

This is when I miss Black Twitter: when I need allllllll the tea on that Montgomery Alabama riverfront brawl.

But thankfully BlackTok got me.

Also, the way Black folk used that Jason Aldean song....SNORT. I love the signifyin' ways of my people. HA!

#BlackTwitter
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFed

This podcast ep has 2 of my fave voices in it: Sam Sanders (prev. It's Been a Minute on NPR) and Tressie McMillan Cottom (the MacArthur Genius and author of *Thicc*.)

They talk country music, race, and the hidden story of Black folks in country.

So smart.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/country-musics-race-problem/id1634687152?i=1000622627933

2 miles with Benson this morning.

Sweaty but feeling really good. If you saw or heard a Black woman singing Stevie Nicks as she walked her dog through Rockridge, that was me.

I have to be on a Black Women's Equal Pay Day zoom later today so I intend to enjoy this morning fully.

Let's get it!

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFed #Sunday #Today #BensonUpdate

“On Thursday, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly suggested he’ll move to ban grants designated for minority undergraduate students. The speaker, Robin Vos, responded to a tweet claiming a minority scholarship program designated for students who are Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or of Laotian, Vietnamese or Cambodian descent amounted to “discrimination.””
This is from an article written by Ja’han Jones
These folk just hate black people! #BlackTwitter #BlackMastadon

@fulanigirl @BlackMastodon We have an account with the NYTimes. Here's a gift article on the Brownsville Safety Alliance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/nyregion/brooklyn-brownsville-no-police.html?unlocked_article_code=JT1SA17jGvbrZtIl8d9eteHRwHlZx4jCplKCKB5ld_HZbh67-Z65aP4Bh1e7J68c-hQqG0kd90KRYozAhrxvFR-pmSU3LxMogkG5QjFMXz-_5hbtgdF1zjqfIXwAHfrZl81IGQnRyzbZrYXajO8qGvu2beK2TywFP48CO4tpL81RvkWpUnVdvMOkcpqlPQjULAf0_a_KUq2Nb8wRLOl1il5Zg1HcIDAMZa6AdbSYMWn9kKZPGiMn-grmgSqcxp3Xvoa_bXBSm2_tOxRr4FQev4lEWtFkTXvAG6Adw2c9vC-uG_Y8GMbCJ3ftscv87AjeUoYcEB8Shy112wB5exUMiRhrFwDuvHgiX98&smid
=url-share

#Abolition #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #ReducingPoliceViolence #CommunityEmpowerment
@BlackMastodon

I've been getting some new blank followers from truth.social who look sus.

Blank = 0 posts; 0 followers; profile pic bringing 'let's hook up in a Walmart parking lot.'

Is truth.social janky?

#FediWeird
#Fediverse
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFed

@minervakoenig I’m no Reddit power user or anything, I really only started lurking on a few support-group-like subs about a year ago so I’m no great authority. The questionable stuff, I know it’s there, but I never saw it much. Pornsick jagoffs will be just fine since porn is everywhere, it’s those support communities who are gonna be harmed by the platform’s implosion. Same as with groups like #BlackTwitter and #DisabilityTwitter on the old site.