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Author Archives: Isabella Li

The Personal Price of “Systemic” Healthcare Inequality

Shallow attempts at cultural sensitivity might appear to encourage diversity, but in truth, they erase the true diversity that occurs within—not between—different racial, ethnic, and religious groups.

Posted byIsabella LiAugust 21, 2020August 21, 2020Posted inColumnist, National, OpinionLeave a comment on The Personal Price of “Systemic” Healthcare Inequality

The Misleading Language of Race in Medicine

When medicine relies on arbitrary standards based on race alone, when it blames “comorbidities” without acknowledging the roots of these inequalities, ultimately, it plays into the same false ideas that fuel the more obvious forms of racism.

Posted byIsabella LiAugust 7, 2020August 7, 2020Posted inColumnist, National, OpinionLeave a comment on The Misleading Language of Race in Medicine

Reproductive Justice Means More than Abortion

While all child-bearing people have faced reproductive oppression, BIPOC have had to fight harder to have children, to raise their children safely, and at the most basic level, to be heard.

Posted byIsabella LiJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020Posted inNational, OpinionLeave a comment on Reproductive Justice Means More than Abortion

A Vaccine Won’t Solve All Our Problems

Here’s the thing about pandemics: if a solution doesn’t apply to everyone, it’s no good.

Posted byIsabella LiJuly 10, 2020July 10, 2020Posted inNational, OpinionLeave a comment on A Vaccine Won’t Solve All Our Problems

From J.K. Rowling to the Clinic

We can recognize a reckless dismissal of trans identity in many corners of our society. When we see it acted upon by those whose actions directly impact our health and well-being—health care professionals, lawmakers, law enforcement—we understand just how life threatening such attitudes can be.

Posted byIsabella LiJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020Posted inNational, OpinionLeave a comment on From J.K. Rowling to the Clinic

Our Carceral System is a Plague Too

Police brutality and mass incarceration occupy significant space within the torn and ragged picture of our country’s rampant health care injustice. But as the pandemic sharpens and clarifies these disparities, elevating their life-or-death stakes to new levels, we grant law enforcement even more control.

Posted byIsabella LiJune 12, 2020June 12, 2020Posted inNational, OpinionLeave a comment on Our Carceral System is a Plague Too

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