“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” - Arundhati Roy

The Supreme Court overturned Roe, 50 years of precedent, with a 6-3 hard-right majority which includes 5 justices appointed by GOP presidents who lost the popular vote, 2 credibly accused of sexual misconduct, & 1 in a totally stolen seat. No wonder there’s a legitimacy crisis.

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

Confronting HIV and COVID has been difficult, but my patients give me hope. Sharing this story about Ray and his triumph, despite all the structural barriers. It’s about what beautiful things can happen when two Black gay men find each other. #medtwitter

Re-posting my favorite Jim poem, “the last day”: Time is promise,
But uninvited circumstance
And wounded souls
Eventually barter it away.
The owner of my borrowed time
Will arrive at random to insist
All what remains of me vanish…
A shadow of a shadow

Passing into mist.
So, I and my last day
Will take a journey together
When we both are spent,
That leaves the familiar
Once infused in all the days,
To stand at the edge of night,
And wonder in the dying light
Exactly where we went. ❤️

We lost a giant in the field and it’s truly heartbreaking. I remember as a freshman in college, deciding whether or not to go into medicine, and finding him as a North Star - exactly the kind of doctor I wanted to be. Thank you Dr. Farmer for changing the world. Rest in Power ❤️

My beautiful brother’s beautiful piece in The New Yorker. ❤️ @oumgbako

This, written by a friend I met at 18, is a reminder of what we thought medicine could be, when we started.

“Our visits kept coming back to poetry. More than any medicine, the poems seemed to blunt Jim’s pain—they were his most effective treatment.” Beautiful writing from Dr @oumgbako. a tribute to his poet patient, whose poetry is now in the @NewYorker https://t.co/mldYlkrQgZ

In this long season of loss, this is surely a triumph. My patient Jim means the world to me, so I wrote about our relationship, rooted in poetry, for The New Yorker. I’m so happy to share this with the world. For Jim.

On a whim, @oumgbako asked one of his patients, who believed he only had two years to live, “What gives you purpose as you face your own mortality?” In response, the patient handed him a book of poetry.

Starting with maybe our favorite book about sex work in an international context, To Live Freely in this World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa by @chiadanna draws on rich interviews with SW activists in 7 countries:

Beyond excited to announce the virtual symposium for our special issue on sex workers’ rights, featuring @thotscholar, @MissLoreleiLee, @DrHeatherBerg, @PriyaMorley, and @KendraSerra - March 19 at 5pm EST - save the date!

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 – 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵: https://t.co/LsJAh2UnLW

Experienced a homophobic microaggression in clinic today. In the past it would’ve zapped me of energy, but now it’s a reminder that I’m free. Free of the emptiness and self-loathing of toxic masculinity. I wish we could all be free. #Gaymedtwitter #blackandgayisbeautiful

Stop comparing this to other countries. This is white supremacist violence and it is 100% American.

I hope someone plays Trump endless videos of the millions of people dancing in the streets, reveling in his misery, celebrating his political demise!

here’s some Fleetwood Mac for your timeline and for your anxiety🥰