The environment, and environmental justice, are critical to our calls for racial justice. Racial justice is critical to environmental justice. We cannot separate justice from the systems of oppression which disable them.
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Black girls worry about the clothes they wear and grow into Black women facing the same struggles. Black women have to been forced to be conscious of how they dress in professional settings and how others may perceive their bodies. The perception of Black bodies, like the idea itself that Black women’s bodies are inappropriate, can result in workplace harassment and even being fired.
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In March 2022, the House of Representatives passed the Crown Act. This act states that employers are unable to discriminate against employees for wearing natural styles like locs (commonly referred to as “dreadlocks”), braids, Afros, etc. The fact that this act needed to be brought to the floor of the House for a second time in 2022, after passing in 2020 and then failing to be approved by the previously Republican-ruled Senate, is a testimony to the hard work still to be done.
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The last time we spoke, we talked about how healthcare discrimination and the inequitable delivery of healthcare have led to a global pandemic – with a bullseye on already struggling communities of color. Today, I want to talk to you about Black mental health. The goal is not to survive. The goal is to live with mental health acceptance and awareness every day. Or at least, that is what I heard the therapists say (wink, wink).
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I tell this story to give a face to the idea of medical discrimination. I honestly can’t say that the doctors didn’t take me seriously because I was a woman or a Black woman. But I can say that the medical professionals didn’t believe me. I can say that had that nurse not said what she said, I may not have returned. My son could have died. I could’ve died. As bizarre as it sounds, I have had Black women say that medical professionals told them that Black women couldn’t feel pain. Why wouldn’t we be able to feel pain as human beings?
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