Physician and bestselling author Uché Blackstock returns to discuss the memoir-manifesto Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin. We talk about viral justice and viral injustice, and how American individualism is one of the biggest challenges to the work of abolition. We also unpack why we struggle with owning the power we have, and how viral justice can show up in our communities, from education to labor and beyond.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our March book club pick will be.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
- Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin
- Legacy by Uché Blackstock, M.D.
- Mariame Kaba
- Derecka Purnell
- Imani Perry
- Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
- Solitary Gardens
- Four I’s of Oppression
- Weathering by Arline Geronimus
- Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act
- Rep. Lauren Underwood
- Dorothy Roberts
- “Gynecology was built on Black women’s suffering. We’re still reckoning with its racist roots today” (Nicole Karlis, Salon)
- “Mississippi Appendectomies: Reliving Our Pro-Eugenics Past” (Jessica Pearce, Ms.)
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Henrietta Lacks
- Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
- SAG/AFTRA
- “CEO on why giving all employees minimum salary of $70,000 still ‘works’” (CBS News)
- “Ep. 239 The Purpose of a System Is What It Does with Mariame Kaba” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 243 Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law — The Stacks Book Club (Mariame Kaba)” (The Stacks)
- Legacy by Uché Blackstock, MD (audiobook)
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
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