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Author: Sunshine Muse

  • Echoing Ida

10 Ways Orgs Can Show Up for Black Lives Without Exploiting ‘Black Lives Matter’

Solidarity is more than a written statement.

  • Echoing Ida

Dear White People…10 Ways You Can Show Up for your Black Friends and Colleagues

An open letter to my people who are White and sincerely want to show up in their inter-cultural relationships during this time.

  • Echoing Ida

One COVID-19 Survivor Speaks Out

Let’s use Bonita’s experience and the experiences of others to help us navigate this crisis. We are better together.

  • Echoing Ida

Wake Up Female Protagonists: COVID-19

Tune in heroines, wake up femme and female protagonists. We need you.

  • Echoing Ida

Now That We Know There’s a Maternal Mortality Crisis, How Can We Help Fix It?

“There is something that can be done. This is not the end of the story; it’s just the beginning and we have the power to shape the story.”

  • Echoing Ida

Ten Ways to ‘Keep the Public Health’ in Public Health

I know that if equity is not an instinct yet among public health professionals, then a framework that ensures it must be.

  • Echoing Ida

Breastfeeding America: What We Know

When I look at black people’s present health outcomes I understand that they are based on structural inequities then and now, and directly linked to the ways that racism makes us sick.

  • Echoing Ida

Kelly Rowland’s New Book on First-Time Motherhood: Loads of Advice, Anxiety, and Not Much Joy

She was courageous to write a book about being freaked out by becoming a mother and the changes that come with it. But the postpartum period doesn’t have to be riddled with problems.

  • Echoing Ida

Grieving a Mom Who’s Still Here

In the last six months, five of my friends’ moms have died. My mom is 63, healthy and here, but her capacity for intimacy is incompatible with my desire to be nurtured.

  • Echoing Ida

Black History Month, Nelson Mandela and The Island

“Black people celebrate our history all year long and throughout our life. Memory is so short, if we don’t focus the attention of the world on what’s important to us, others may be quick to help us forget.”

Recent Posts in Echoing Ida

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  • “How can I trust them?”: Inside Black Americans’ very justified vaccine skepticism
  • “A devastating betrayal”: Muslim Pro’s data-sharing highlights the constant surveillance of Muslims
  • #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives — Addressing Physicians’ Complicity in Criminalizing Communities
  • Voting is Not Enough
  • We Are the Flare
  • These Black and brown Americans explain why not voting is their chosen act of resistance
  • 5 Black women imagine what true justice for Breonna Taylor would look like

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