How can there be so much talk on listening to stories of sufferers but a violent placing of a cloth over the truth and then the outpouring of sadness when the stories that are suffered were never received when they needed to be to save a life?.

Our panel on land-based violence for our Land Body Ecologies festival is tomorrow evening 6.30pm - 8pm at the Wellcome Trust. There are still places left to register for. Would love to see friendly faces there! All welcome!

Women one cares. Every woman should be grieved.But the world I know is where I woman's death is silenced.We need to ask serious questions about how medicine and academia feeds into this dehumanising narrative.

@UCLGenderHealth.

My Opinion article in the BMJ published today on the ban on Afghan women’s education and the erosion of hope for the future

If academics are proclaiming they will amplify the voices of the voiceless, will anyone listen to me?.

Have you have listened to someone’s story without ignoring turning your back feeling burdened feeling powerless without believing?How many listen?We say we must give voice to the voiceless.Listen.Someone close to you right now buried in the soil of silence the hell of a grave.

I work in stopping suffered stories be silenced.I made an awful mistake.Staying silent is survival.Speaking stories of suffering leads to silence.There is no one there.Solitude is better than silence. Now I know why the silent stories build up until their last, silenced, breath.

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Yesterday I was told that I have a right to tell my story too and it felt like an epiphany .

This mornings lecture was on harmful traditional practices & trauma.This afternoon it’s on sexual violence in war.I must do this because o’wise souls are buried before their bodies without bringing silences to life.What to do when the world is bellowing such screams of suffering?.

What does it mean when an academic specialising in trauma,receiving endless stories of suffering but when there is a moment when one needs to reach out for help,there is just silence.What does this mean for those who are buried alive under this emptiness.What if I need help too?.

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Preparing to give a very heavy talk for the wonderful Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine course at St Apothecaries’.Hopefully,will succeed in providing understanding to medical doctors preparing for humanitarian action about the suffering of civilians enduring violence in conflict

Growing-up as a child with medic parents next door to a Care Home for elderly complex care I saw the phenomenon of death.I wish to return to my roots & explore death by dying rather death of being killed in war. As a senior lecturer in global health, it feels like kismet.

Any geriatricians or old age psychiatrists willing to talk to me as a senior global health and owner of a Care Home thats been in my family all through my childhood with complex nursing care in a rural area to explore collaborations of their narratives during the pandemic?.

I have thoughts every day about whether I should stay quiet or speak or if those who I try to reach would actually be better off without my words. Maybe I should stay silent. And if I speak, then I feel Im people are better off without.

I came from a village. I want to escape silence. I wanted to create empathy by the stories of suffering that are buried from life. “The dead story”. So why does it feel like when I try to do so I feel Im writing the end of my career, reputation & the anxiety is always so high.

We all have words we cannot say & reasons for this.I fought MANY hurdles to reach where I am now in academia with the goal to expose ways of suffering & silencing except I’m in deep exhaustion from observing the unethical & inhumane. This constant fight to prove #warlivesmatter.

I’ll try to write slow & clear as I find my words to try to explain what it’s like to be work in the depths of suffering & within spaces that magnify harm #storiesarenotreceived & I don’t know what I can say or cannot say.Its hard to fight but also to not feel I shouldn’t be here.