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The “Our Words Matter” Campaign to Reduce Stigma and Bias in Clinical Communication: A Case Report
No full textLanguage choice in clinical communication has become increasingly important and timely given that patients now have access to their full medical record, as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. Students and faculty within Temple University Health System (TUHS) identified stigmatizing language as a significant issue impacting patient care. This case report describes the process of assembling a multidisciplinary team to create an educational campaign with the goal of reducing stigma and bias in the medical record. The campaign team leveraged a grassroots approach, a network of champions, pilot testing and community engagement to design and implement this initiative within a complex academic health system. Changing language alone will not address all the disparities experienced by marginalized patients and communities but provides an important initial step for clinicians. Campaigns like this one can serve as models for medical and public health professionals who seek to advance health equity
A Conversation with Dr. Richard Immerman
No full textDr. Immerman discussses his experiences with Dr. Walter LaFeber and the effort of putting on a memorial conference
Addressing Digital Health Equity Through Diverse User Personas
Full text linkWith patient portals emerging as a powerful digital health innovation, the work described in this manuscript strives to ensure that these innovations occur with health equity at the forefront. This work approaches this uniquely through the data-informed development of user personas. This will be particularly useful for developers and healthcare institutions when considering the diverse needs of potential patient portal users of historically marginalized backgrounds.
“They Don\u27t Know I Do It for the Culture, Goddamn” : Lizzo’s “Rumors” and the Intersectionality of Fat Black Female Representation
No full textPatriarchy, white supremacy, and fatphobia shape mainstream American culture into the twenty-first century. Fat Black women in popular culture are represented through controlling images that seek to define Black women through their perverse embodiment. Two dominant stereotypes, the Hottentot Venus and the mammy, synthesize anti-Blackness, anti-fatness, and misogyny to confine large Black women within a continuum between hypersexualized deviance and asexualized subservience. This historical context informs the social dynamics surrounding Lizzo, a fat Black performer whose rise has electrified discussion of race, gender, and body size across American society. The discourse surrounding Lizzo is marked by pernicious, oppressive ideologies and the controlling images of the mammy and the Hottentot Venus. The song “Rumors” directly confronts these attacks on Lizzo’s identity and works against this oppressive framework to proclaim joint Black, fat, female liberation
Birth of the She-Devil: Lesbian Depictions in American Cinema (1999- 2003)
No full textAt the turn of the century, lesbian characters were appearing in popular American media ranging from television to film. However, many of these depictions were far from supportive. Instead, the lesbian identity of characters in American cinema harbored negative stereotypes that acted as an attack on the third wave feminist movement.
This essay analyzes depictions of lesbians in film at the end of the 20th century as it relates to the third wave feminist movement of the 1990s. More specifically, it argues that stigmatized depictions of lesbians in American cinema reproduced the underlying anxieties of the third wave feminist movement. Through the analysis of two films: Election (1999) and Mean Girls (2003), as well as the feminist theory of bell hooks, this essay explores the fears and anxieties of the revitalized feminist movement. Both films served as a backlash against the feminist movement by using skewed depictions of lesbians to further establish negative emotions towards the movement. These political and sociological anxieties of the feminist movement developed into exaggerated characteristics within lesbian supporting characters. As a result, stigmatized depictions of lesbians delegitimized their role as leaders of the third wave feminist movement
