nursingforsocialjustice

My heart breaks when I experience the cognitive dissonance of reading social media posts reinforcing the message that caring and compassion on contingent on being the same, on sharing a value or view, a privilege to share with people who are like us, who think like us, who agree with…

This is a strange place that you and I are in, where some of us are trying desperately to hang on to an idea of the middle class that was built in a post World War II era, and some of us are trying to convince the rest of us…

2019 is coming to a close. There are many things in my mind. Those words in my head that go unspoken, but are forever repeating. And I wonder, what is to come in the next decade of the 21st century. What will happen? How do you measure something that doesn’t…

It seems like everyday I experience deep existential crises about what my place is in this world. I have four beautiful children who I want to grow up to be four thoughtful adults one day. Sometimes I worry that we won’t get there. Do you ever feel an intense sense…

On a fundamental level, as human beings, aren’t we all just trying to get by, to find some sort of meaning in this life so that we feel like we belong somewhere and connected to something? What if we embraced that? And what if we embraced the idea that the…

We are so much the same, you and I. This can be hard to believe in a culture where we are constantly striving for personal greatness, and individual uniqueness, searching for our bliss and what makes us stand out from the person next to us. But really, we are all…

The fatal flaw is believing that someone who does not share your beliefs came to have those beliefs because of some inherent moral flaw. It is an easier conclusion to draw that someone is inherently racist, and that this racism is static…or is it? At the heart of this, I…

Have you ever found yourself at an academic type conference feeling worn-out by the academic-type jargon that academic-type people use, perhaps as a means of distancing themselves from non-academic types in the discipline? This is how I feel sometimes when I go to conferences. I apologize for being super-judgemental but…

When We first moved back to the Lower Mainland in 2015, I was new to my job, new to the area I was living in, by myself of the first month and 17 weeks pregnant with our fourth child. I am a nurse, I completed graduate school, I just left…

So many buzzwords, so little time to understand what they really mean, where they originated, and how they lose meaning or become distorted over time. For example, what does it mean when someone says that they are, “speaking their truth”? Does the term have value, does it have power? Is…