#RUPA MARYA

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by Cory Franklin

Saira recently said that she was “genuinely terrified for Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian and black patients” because of the number of “Zionists” among American doctors and nurses. Shockingly, some people construed those remarks as being antisemitic. You know how touchy those people can be.

Saira might have had some trouble were it not for another woman who leapt to her defense. And this woman is a bona fide physician with some street cred.

Dr. Rupa Marya, is an associate professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco. According to her UCSF profile, she was recognized in 2021 with the Women Leaders in Medicine Award by the American Medical Student Association. A reviewer for the American Medical Association’s Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity, Rupa was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to the Healthy California for All Commission, to create a model for universal healthcare in California. The kind of can-do person who has her finger on the pulse of modern medicine.

(Siena College, in upstate New York, recently named Dr. Marya a featured speaker for a March lecture series. On its website, Siena said it was “proud to welcome” Rupa to speak March 13 on the topic of “Decolonizing Medicine: Transforming our World Through Medicine, Activism, and Music.”)

And true to fashion, Rupa recognizes where the real problem is. In support of Saira Rao, Rupa wrote, “The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity. Zionism is supremacist … how does their outlook/position impact priorities in US medicine? … people who hold any supremacist position are not going to be doctors who advance health equity. They are part of and support structures that obstruct it. This may be an important reason why, in spite of 20 years of investment into health equity, we’ve closed no gaps in health disparities.”

See? Hitler and Stalin got it right – the ones keeping medicine down are those Jews and their medicine. All those problems in health care you hear about? Yep, Jews. (As someone pointed out, Saira and Rupa could save everyone a lot of time by cutting to the chase – forget about the “Zionist” stuff and just say “Jews.”)

#jewish doctors #doctors #zionists #rupa marya #dr rupa marya #saira rao #devil's spawn #the devil's spawn

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Chart by Rupa Marya, MD.

The violence of Israel/US is a longstanding kind of violence that is bred out of mentality that interrupts critical relationships for health. Colonial capitalism drives inflammatory disease, inflamed social relations and lights our planet on fire--literally. Here in the US we have "white supremacy." There in Israel it's "Jewish supremacy." In Hindutva India, it's "Hindu supremacy." Whatever form it takes, the underlying ideology is one of oppression and violence, to maintain those structures of power to keep the economic engine running which in turn maintains those structures of power. To interrupt colonial capitalism everywhere we see it--this is the meaning of Deep Medicine. This is how health becomes possible for all. Get the heat in the streets, friends. The good kind of inflammation is channeling our outrage at the violence we see to set aflame the injustices and let the fire of resistance renew us and help us rebuild bonds of care for one another and the earth, outside the logic of colonialism.

#rupa marya #colonialism #supremacism #capitalism #white supremacy #patriarchy #slavery #genocide #femicide #child abuse #climate change #trauma #work #politics

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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (ENCORE)

  Inflammatory diseases are on the rise around the world, and doctors are finally starting to pay more attention to them. But why does a beneficial part of our immune system turn unhealthy? Raj Patel and Rupa Marya think it has a lot to do with the world we’re forced to live in.  They talk about the collapse of our planet and what it has to do with inflammation, and how our bodies are a mirror of…

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#DEEP MEDICINE #disease #environment #INFLAMMATORY #medicine #RAJ PATEL #RUPA MARYA

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Via Untold Stories and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah on Instagram: For the last four months, this work of dehumanization has extended beyond the battlefield and Israeli politics to include European and North American policies of silencing and policing Palestinian voices and symbols, including protestors and activists, artists, academics, union workers, social media users, and other professionals, particularly in Germany. In their article, Abu Sitta and Marya call for a reshaping of the ethical role of physicians in times of dehumanization and genocide. They argue that it is the duty of physicians to rehumanize Palestinians, and they connect the process of rehumanization with decolonization, an overused term that has come to mean nothing more than an intellectual muscle flexing in ‘politics’ in academia, yet remains an urgent praxis in the lives of people in settler colonies and post-colonies today.

Link to the article written by Dr Lamia Moghnieh.

Link to the article referenced, written by Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah and Dr Rupa Marya.

#palestine #free palestine #israel #gaza #free gaza #gaza genocide #dr ghassan abu sitta #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #described #id in alt text #please give the article written by dr ghassan abu sitta and dr rupa marya a read #Instagram

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"Your body is inflamed. If you haven’t felt it yet, you or someone close to you soon will. Symptoms to look for include uncontrolled weight gain or unexpected weight loss, skin rashes, difficulty with memory, fever, trouble breathing, and chest pain. Inflammation accompanies almost every disease in the modern world: heart disease, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer’s, depression, obesity, diabetes, and more. The difference between a mild course and a fatal case of Covid-19 is the presence or absence of systemic inflammation.

Your body is part of a society inflamed. Covid has exposed the combustible injustices of systemic racism and global capitalism. Demagogues around the world kindle distrust and hatred. Governments send in the police to impose order, monitor lockdowns, enforce a return to work for those who comply and incarceration for those who do not.” ~ Rupa Marya and Raj Patel - Inflamed COVID damages your body with every infection. At some point, that cumulative damage is too much for your body and you begin the long slide into permanent and possibly progressive disability of Long COVID, if you survive--or as long as you survive.

#covid #eugenics #genocide #wear a mask

[thatsgoodweather]

"[University of California, San Francisco] is trying to isolate and marginalize me. Medicine residents are complaining that leadership will not allow me to speak in antiracism forums because they characterize me as “controversial.” But I am not some outlier of medicine. I am a part of its history of correction. Judging by the sheer numbers of medical students who reach out to me from around the country to ask for mentorship, to work alongside me, and who come to UCSF specifically because of my work, I am part of a movement bringing forward ideas that are a postcard from the future, that were gifted to me by the loving relationships of the communities who teach me and who I serve.  These are ideas that call for radical inquiry into why medicine doesn’t serve all, despite 20 years of investment into so-called “health equity.” These are ideas that look unflinchingly into the violence of our past and the present to map a better world without violence in the future, so that all may be healthy. These are ideas that bring analysis of critical pedagogies into medicine, insisting upon an understanding of how history and power are shaping the health outcomes we see. This is not comfortable work. But it is necessary if we want to see all people thrive and live the lives they truly deserve. My understanding of health equity and justice comes from decades of being a part of and serving communities in the struggle for our collective liberation. I realize there are not too many physicians in the academy who spend as much time as I have in frontline struggles — listening to families who have lost their loved ones to racist police violence, which continues to grow in the U.S., and standing together with Indigenous people who are resisting a pipeline  through their water, or a real estate development going up on their sacred site. Today, experts with institutional roles in health equity are notably silent about the genocide in Gaza, which speaks volumes about their allegiance to power rather than their commitment to end inequities. I do not learn about health equity from reading books, attending conferences or holding journal clubs. I learn about health equity through building solidarity and living in lockstep with the communities I serve and to whom I belong, through the practice of Deep Medicine. My understanding of health is shaped by the survivors of genocide working to get their land back in Ohlone territory where I was born and where I work. It is sharpened by La Via Campesina’s peasant farming movement, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the Waorani’s struggle to hold oil companies responsible for the pollution of the Amazon, the families of Oscar Grant, Mario Woods and Alex Nieto, all killed by Bay Area police, the family at Poor Magazine, disability justice movements and survivors of medical violence, and the Indigenous-led pipeline resistance, which has been the most effective tactic to lower greenhouse gas emissions in North America. My work is shaped by many people who work in service of ending apartheid in Palestine and bringing a future with equal rights for all."

By Rupa Marya, MD

#free palestine

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Books/"Articles" to read - either for diss or in general (to be edited and continued. some descriptions taken from those who have recommended them):

Temporary - Hilary Leichter. A woman takes on a series of wild, impossible temporary jobs

Either/or - Elif Batuman. A college sophomore embarks on a quest for an interesting life

So Distant From My life - Monque Ilaboudo. A young West African man attempts to leave his home and migrate to Europe, only to find out the journey and his future isn't what he planned it to be. Set in Burkina Faso and explores imperialism, migration and the queer experience in Africa.

The Rooftop - Fernanda Trias. A paranoid narrator refuses to let her family (her sick father and her newborn child) outside of their house and tries to navigate life with minimal contact with the outside world. Set in Uruguay. Explores paranoia, motherhood and class struggle.

All your Children, Scattered - Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse. French. Story of 3 generations, torn apart by the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez. We often forget that bias is built into our environment as we often imagine social issues in their theoretical instead of physical manifestations.

Inflamed - Rupa Marya. Deep medecine and the anatomy of injustice.

Cane, Corn & Gully - Safiya Kamaria Kinsbasa. A collection of poems about Barbados, slavery, colonialism, patriarchy and oppression as a whole.

Autobiography of my Mother - Jamaica Kincaid

The Will to Change - Bell Hooks

Sula - Toni Morrison. Follows the life of a young black girl and the small town/settlement she lived in, exploring racism and female friendships.

Happening - Annie Ernaux. Autobiographical account of French feminist Annie Ernaux's experience with accessing abortion when it was illegal in France. Powerful and important. Will make you cry whilst also getting you to admire the myriad ways in which wmen resisted and continue to resist state violence.

Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz. Collection of poetry exploring the experiences of Native Americans and how it feels to have your land taken from you and changed into something you no longer recognise.

Hey, Good Luck Out There - Georgia Toews

The Life of the Mind - Christine Smallwood

Blueberries - Ellena Savage

Post-Traumatic - Chantal V. Johnson

The Spirit of Intimacy - Sobonfu Somé

The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz

The Mysticism of Sound and Music - Inayat Khan

"A Face in the crowd" - Phillippe Le Goff, 22 Sept 2023. Marshall Berman, the celebrated political philosopher and urbanist died 10 years ago this month. His deep commitment to a Marxist humanism, a 'Marxism with soul' has still much to teach us.

"The Day Hip-Hop Changed Forever" - Ahmir Questlove Thompson

"[missing first few words]..Quiet?" The sound of gentrification is silence - Xochitl Gonzalez

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong. A touching memoir, beautifully lyrical

Post-Humous Memoirs of Brá Cubas - Machano de Assis. Perfect blend of beautiful writing and 'plot'.

Meltdown - ben elton

African Writers Series - Saqi and Banipal books

"What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" - Claire Dederer Nov 20th 2017. questioning the separation of the artist and art think piece

TED Youtube video - "Your elusive creative genius" - Elizabeth Gilbert. from the author of Eat, Pray, Love. talks about the creative process and the idea of "genius"

"How friendships change in adulthood" - Julie Beck, The Atlantic

"Ugliness is Underrated: In Defence of Ugly Paintings" - Katy Kelleher, July 31 2018 (The Paris Review)

"The Husband Did It" - Alice Bolin The Awl, Feb 2015

"Is Therapy-speak making us selfish?" - Rebecca Fishbein, Bustle

"You May Want to Marry my Husband" - Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Mar 3 2017

"The joy of sulk"- Rebecca Roache

"A thin line between mother and daughter" - Jennifer Egan, Nov 14 1997

The Unabridged Journals - Sylvia Plath

Flaubertian (comparative more Flaubertian, superlative most Flaubertian) Of or relating to Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), influential French novelist in the style of literary realism.

Though he is an iconic figure of the realist movement, Flaubert is equally well known for his imaginative Orientalist works of fiction.

"The Plight of the Eldest Daughter" - The Atlantic, by Sarah Sloat

"A Poet's Faith" - Life and Letters 11 Dec 2023 Issue, by Casey Cep, The New Yorker

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Hullo! I thought I’d start out by introducing myself My name’s Milo, I’m trans and non-binary and use they/them pronouns. I live on unceded Gadigal land, in so-called Sydney, Australia. I’m youeatdogchow on Instagram, and youeatdogfood on Tiktok (yes I’m on booktok), and I’m also on Goodreads, Storygraph, and Bookworm Reads. If you hadn’t guessed, I read a lot of books… like a lot… most of my free time is spent reading, and occasionally cycling through other various hobbies I never stick to (thanks ADHD). My current hobby/hyperfixation is learning how to play the harmonica, but I’ll be honest I’m not doing too well. I also get asked a lot how I concentrate on reading so well in light of my ADHD, and while I wouldn’t be able to do it so easily w/out medication (🙏 god bless u ritalin), I’m also autistic and reading is w/out a doubt my main special interest, and never fails to make me feel better and brings me back to baseline when I’m feeling dysregulated and overstimulated. And it doesn’t hurt that I work in a bookstore part-time, which fuels my dedication. I’m also a mental health support worker, and I’m in my third year (nearly fourth) of a Bachelor of Social Work at uni. I love it, but it’s definitely a slog. I’m taking a little half-year gap year fr the rest of 2023, and what inspired me to start this blog was that I’m missing studying and writing papers, and bc of this many of my latest book reviews on Goodreads, etc, have turned into what are essentially small essays. So I thought why not start a blog where I can just shout my essay-length opinions on books into the void that is the internet, and hope someone out there appreciates them.

But anyway, moving on. I generally read anywhere frm 70-90 books a year, and I mostly read non-fiction, w one or two fiction books thrown in every other month when I feel like switching it up. My nonfic choices used to predominantly be socio-political nonfic, and often around topics of policing and prison abolition and similar, w some history books thrown in, but in the last half year I’ve branched out a little, and have been reading more books on science and biology, and particularly on what someone once called “hopeful environmentalism” (an example would be Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ or Merlin Sheldrake’s ‘Entangled Life’). So I’ve been having fun w that!

Some of my favourite books are ‘Tomboy Survival Guide’ by Ivan Coyote (absolute all-time fave!), ‘Born to Run’ by Bruce Springsteen (maybe this seems like an odd choice but I’m a diehard Bruce fan), ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘Inflamed’ by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, ‘The Monster’s Bones’ by David K. Randall, ‘The Feminist Bookstore Movement’ by Kristen Hogan, ‘Are Prison’s Obsolete?’ by Angela Y. Davis, ‘Prison Writings’ by Leonard Peltier, ‘No More Police’ by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie, ‘Entangled Life’ by Merlin Sheldrake, and ‘Blood in the Water’ by Heather Ann Thompson, among many others.

Some other things about me: I have terrible taste in movies; most every book I read is serious and academic and sometimes even heart-wrenching, and I cope just fine, but I can’t handle serious tele and movies, and mostly just watch ridiculous and silly comedies. My favourite movie is Charlie’s Angels (2000) and Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz were definitely my gay root. I also went through an obsession w the show Our Flag Means Death, and I know when season two comes out (!!!) my obsession will def skyrocket again and it will consume me. I also have a 1308 (as of 01/09/23) day streak on Duolingo learning French, but honestly I do one lesson a day and it goes in one ear and straight out the other, so I can passably read French but can’t speak a lick of it. Also, as mentioned, I love Bruce Springsteen. I’ve seen him in concert once (best night of my life), but I have two Springsteen tattoos, and I’m always in the top .01 per cent of Springsteen listeners every Spotify wrapped, and I take my Bruce dedication seriously. I also love collecting cassette tapes (my collection is small but growing), and I have an old 1972 National Panasonic portable cassette player/recorder that is one of my most treasured possessions.

I can’t think of anything else rn, so I’ll leave it at that! Nice to meet you, please always feel free to say hi and introduce yrself back. Thank you fr popping by to check out my blog and taking the time to read my reviews :~) I hope you enjoy!

#booklr #queer books #bookseller #booksellers of tumblr #about myself #about me #about #bookblr #queer #nonfiction #nonfiction books #book recs #book recommendations

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In Flamed Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

A Reflection On

Inflamed

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of

Injustice!

By

Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults-unless of course you want the same treatment. ." Matthew 7:1-5

Marya and Patel open with these words:

"Deep medicine is the birthing of resistance to the oppression of those forces that keep us from being our true selves. .and engaging in deep medicine means understanding how every human's internal state synchronizes with the environment around them and helping them that DIALOGUE THAT SPEAK IN AS MANY LANGUAGES AS POSSIBLE."

By "speaking in as many languages as possible," we come together listening and coming towards understanding each other and supporting and caring for our fellow human beings and our environment.

Presently we are not listening to the language of others Rupa predicts, as a native of India, by looking away and not seeing,"the disparities of India were not the past of a backward nation, they were the future of places like the United States."

My "dark night of the soul" came to me in seeing people on every corner sleeping in doorways, without blankets; mental ill and substance abusers walking around naked, witnessing the death of a youth on snap chat, and holding the hands of others dying from being stabbed, shot, and a number dying from the coronavirus. Housing, food, gas, and medical care are only available to those with money. We are becoming a country with a rich-poor divide. It literally tears my heart apart. I am nauseous and wonder what has happened to us as human beings.

Patel tells us: "We can be healthy only when the entire community is also healthy meaning all beings: plants, animals, water, people, soil, and air, the ancestors, and those not yet born. And this is achievable only through social, economic, political, ecological, and cosmological spheres working in an integrated fashion for the benefit of all, not just for a privileged few.. "   .

During Pride month I remember queer youth are 4 times as likely to commit suicide than their straight peers. All over social media, the news, and where politicians speak we hear the hateful thoughts and words,  churches and other institutions ignore queer youth.

Violence results from the way Blacks and minorities are treated in actions and words.

I was told recently that I was as tough as nails (LOL), I hear more words of hate and threatened violence than pleasant words. I suffer a lot from those words, I cry a lot, and suffer my own sense of failure.

Our words and actions are where we start in saving our environment and we can in little ways.

Today watching seated at a restaurant, people passing by, and their interactions with a homeless man sitting on the street. Out of one hundred and fifty, not one spoke to him, it was as if he did not exist. We can by speaking to our brothers and sisters on the street, give them a sense of being cared for, and will lead us to work in ways to provide for them. We need to be human beings to others.t

We can begin by seeing our responsibility for the violence in our society, through the ways in which we treat minorities in words and our actions.

In summary, the most important action we can do is to simply listen and "become humble once more in the face of life's greater intelligence. It is to create a community of care that can heal what has been broken, in which we can call take part with fire in our hearts, to cool our veins, our minds, our communities, and our planet, with recognition of our dependent we are on water,wind, earth, fire and the entire web of life. It is to become human again.""

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P.O. Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

www.temenos.org

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If your anti-racism isn’t anti-capitalist … 🤷🏾‍♀️ then what’s it about? @toimarie really got me thinking about this … . . Posted @withregram • @the.mirror Understanding Racial Capitalism is important for us to make sense on how the commodification of colonized people became essential in the imperialist core. _______ Slides by @thewokescientist Chart and words by Rupa Marya (@aprilfishes) , @la_nahual_ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6e12ehptm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  Inflammatory diseases are on the rise around the world, and doctors are finally starting to pay more attention to them. But why does a beneficial part of our immune system turn unhealthy? Raj Patel and Rupa Marya think it has a lot to do with the world we’re forced to live in.  They talk about the collapse of our planet and what it has to do with inflammation, and how our bodies are a mirror of…

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#DEEP MEDICINE #disease #environment #INFLAMMATORY #medicine #RAJ PATEL #RUPA MARYA

[truths89]

Debt is an extractive tool of colonial capitalism, intent upon depleting the life force of human and non-human beings.

Zisa Aziza

#truths89 #poetry #inflamed #rupa marya #neoliberalism #exploitation #ratrace #late stage capitalism #climate chaos #overshoot #systems collapse #zisa aziza #negress of saturn

[fishie-aziz]

“Everything we’ve made, we’ve made from fossil fuels: energy, food, medicine, and consumer goods. The world has been organized to burn.”

Rupa Marya & Raj Patel — Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

#inflamed #rupa marya #raj patel #quotes #reading #fossil fuels #fishfood

[luxe-pauvre]

NOVEMBER 2021

Read:

Avoiding Bad Decisions

Am I my connectome?

Myth and the mind

The Identity Hoaxers

The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness

Blackout in the Brain Lab

I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand

Chasing the Elusive Numbers That Define Epidemics

The politician is the malformed monster of our coexistence

Reparations to Helen: On Beauty, War, and Personal Responsibility

The Medical System Should Have Been Prepared for Long COVID

The Trouble with Brain Scans

How the Right Foods May Lead to a Healthier Gut, and Better Health

A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

To find the truth, we must establish the meaning of falsehood

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Farnam Street

The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology by Farnam Street

The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics by Farnam Street

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Watched:

How Fungi Make Our Worlds

Why Courage Matters and How To Cultivate It with Ryan Holiday*

The Exponential Age

Deep Medicine and Social Injustice - Ai Weiwei meets Raj Patel & Rupa Marya

You Are Immune Against Every Disease

POV: When you get into Oxford & Cambridge but now “stack shelves”

why you’re so tired

Vaccines: A Measured Response**

Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Breaking Convention***

Temple (S2)

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The Pursuit of Love

Showtrial

Listened To:

Supercut by Lorde****

Helen of Troy by Lorde

Fly As Me by Silk Sonic

777 by Silk Sonic

Deceptacon by Le Tigre

The ‘In’ Crowd by Bryan Ferry

Keep Loving Me by The Draytones

Went To:

A New Philosophy of Life with Philip Pullman and Iain McGilchrist

Decision Time - How to Make the Choices Your Life Depends on

Macbeth @ the Royal Opera House

#* I still can't make my mind up about this guy. #** INCREDIBLE. #*** A+. #**** Rediscovered the magnum opus that is Melodrama this month. #personal