
A Viral Message Shows How Representation Matters in Medicine
Laura Marti – June 21 2022 In December 2021 an illustration of a Black fetus in the womb went viral on social media. People commented
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Laura Marti – June 21 2022 In December 2021 an illustration of a Black fetus in the womb went viral on social media. People commented
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π π΅πΎβ π£ π₯Ύ π£πΎββοΈ π§πΏββοΈFor National Great Outdoors Month, check out this booklist of picture books with stories about kids of color exploring the outdoors. We were a little surprised to find out there arenβt very many of these books. π³ππΏππΎππ½
π www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/books-black-children-outdoors/.
π Michelle Martin is a professor at the University of Washingtonβs Information School. She is also a childrenβs literature critic and trains future librarians how to best serve young readers. When Martin was in graduate school, she wrote papers about wilderness-survival stories for kids, and over time noticed that of all the picture books about children exploring the wild outdoors for fun, only a scarce few featured Black kids as protagonists. Check out this Atlantic Mag article to learn more: ππΎππ½
π www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/the-lack-of-diversity-in-childrens-books-about-nature/....
π After reading about Martinβs work, Andrea Breau, childrenβs literature researcher at Diverse Bookfinder, dug into the data in 2019. She identified just 16 booksβout of more than 3,000 in Diverse BookFinderβs collection of diverse picture booksβin which Black children actively explore the outdoors with no purpose other than to convene with nature. Learn more here and check out their booklist: ππΎππ½
π diversebookfinder.org/browse/where-are-the-books-about-black-kids-in-nature/
π‘ If you know of any new books in this genre since these lists were assembled (2019/2020), please share below!
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βπΎ π¨ π¨πΎβπ¨βIn December 2021 an illustration of a Black fetus in the womb went viral on social media. Chidiebere Ibe, 25, is behind the viral image. A chemist and medical student from Niger who had planned to enter the Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine before the Russian invasion in February 2022, he realized there was little representation of Black people or skin tones other than traditionally βwhiteβ skin in medical literature. So he began making his own medical drawings in July 2020. He describes himself as a self-taught medical illustrator and spent at least a year learning to draw anatomy, focusing on Black skin.β
We loved β€οΈ learning about Chidiebere Ibeβs story, how heβs disrupting the medical world, and how representation matters in medicine and healthcare. So head over to our blog to learn more! ππΏππΎππ½
π brownicity.com/blog/a-viral-message-shows-how-representation-matters-in-medicine/
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