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Sexual and Reproductive Health Consultant & founder @rjinitiative trustee @birthrightsorg /PhD @ghsmatkcl / Author #Divided PBK Oct ‘23 lit agent @millyreilly

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@SoSowemimo
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1 year
One week ago, on my birthday I gave birth to the most beautiful gift. Yet, this post isn’t anything like I thought it would be. With all the tools I have at my disposal I find myself initiated into a club nobody wishes to be a part of. The thousands experiencing birth trauma 1/5
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For anyone who is interested in tackling this issue please go and read the fantastic @fivexmore report that came out today 👉🏾
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Black women in the UK are 3-4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes due to systemic bias & healthcare inequalities. NHS consultant in sexual and reproductive health, Dr. Annabel Sowemimo shares her own traumatic birth experience. Women are being silenced,
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Thanks to everyone who came out last night for The Science of Racism @cheltfestivals with Professor Keon West. We covered unconscious bias, reverse racism, DEI training and more. Definitely would love a part 2….
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Little late on this on but I’ll be @cheltfestivals interviewing the formidable Professor Keon West on his new book The Science of Racism this Sunday . 👉🏿.
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RT @MiddleEastEye: ‘Israel is systematically bombing Gaza’s population, indiscriminately, whilst systematically starving them.’ . Dr. Victo….
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Little late on this on but I’ll be @cheltfestivals interviewing the formidable Professor Keon West on his new book The Science of Racism this Sunday . 👉🏿.
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I can’t leave this app because the stupidity on here is so amazing 🤣 . Imagine discovering pidgin, a dialect spoken by over 100 million people, like its brand new.
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End Wokeness
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BBC News for partial-English speakers. Yes, this is real.
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RT @IndexCensorship: Institutional racism within the #NHS is putting patients at risk. In an interview with Dr @SoSowemimo, Index's Mackenz….
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The doctor, writer and activist discusses the difficulties of speaking out against institutional racism in UK healthcare settings
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RT @BMJStudent: Catch the latest episode of Sharp Scratch with @SoSowemimo available now wherever you listen to your podcasts 🎧 https://t.c….
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RT @BloomsburyBooks: 🩺 'Liverpool is a wonderful researcher and this shines through in her writing. SYSTEMIC provides a powerful examinatio….
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RT @ProfSunnySingh: 🧵Zelensky being publicly berated by US president and VP (a mass media spectacle par excellence) has left western Europe….
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I had the absolute pleasure of reviewing Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life by Claire Laurier Decoteau Univ. Chicago Press (2025) for Nature . Go have a read 👉🏿.
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Nature - A methodical analysis of pandemic policies in Chicago, Illinois, reveals why short-term interventions are unable to tackle systemic inequities that affect marginalized communities.
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RT @Samara_Linton: As a Black woman who hopes to bring new life into this world someday, I found writing this feature both challenging and….
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5 months
Been grafting raising a whole human but I’m very lucky to have a platform and I’m very excited to be @MotherhoodGroup Black Maternal health conference this year with so many other fantastic people. This conference should have to exist but it’s vital. 👉🏿
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Dr Annabel
1 year
One week ago, on my birthday I gave birth to the most beautiful gift. Yet, this post isn’t anything like I thought it would be. With all the tools I have at my disposal I find myself initiated into a club nobody wishes to be a part of. The thousands experiencing birth trauma 1/5
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RT @Sen_Alsobrooks: "We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is….
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8 months
Breaking my silence on here to share this piece by @Nmozz who I’ve had the incredible good fortune to enter motherhood alongside . She has also had to manage the loss of a parent too ❤️ .
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This crisis is not the fault of medical professionals. If funding for hospices is cut further, more people will die in distress, says author and journalist Natalie Morris
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RT @NHSMillion: The number of women waiting for gynaecology care in England has more than doubled in the last 5 years. We really do need….
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8 months
Mental health illness is at an all time high in this country and people literally experience the failure of a an alternative system that centres care rather than control on a daily basis.
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8 months
There are so many cases of how those with mental health problems would be better served by abolition. There’s tons of cases of those with acute psychosis dying due to police interactions. Theres nothing ‘alien’ about this position.
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Michael Walker
8 months
How did the left end up with a bunch of positions that are completely alien to the people we aspire to represent?. I loved this conversation with @ayocaesar
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8 months
RT @Shanice_OM: When I worked in homelessness people understood that if you called the police on your clients, your clients had a high chan….
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RT @Shanice_OM: A lot of new followers from the discussion on abolition today!. Please check out our book on abolitionist politics in the U….
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8 months
Ive joined blue sky. Follow me on there 👉🏿 .This app is genuinely becoming useless from the bots to the abuse it’s getting tired. But I do enjoy some of the folk that have found me on here.
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