“What colonialism did to medicine and to the body was it created very clear structures of who matters and who doesn’t” 🎙️ SarahGraham7 interviews campaigner and author SoSowemimo
The big question now for Sowemimo is how the medical profession can begin to address both the atrocities within its history and the ongoing lack of trust felt by marginalised communities.
“How can we build trust when we still have systems repeating the same processes and replicating the same inequalities? You have to challenge the overall status of things, to be really looking for long-term change and be showing that you’re doing that. Only then will trust build over a certain amount of time.”resurgence of Black Lives Matter
, coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic, was a critical part of that. “What we saw was a unique point in time – a window of opportunity to get issues around race on the agenda. Often people would want to turn away and not engage with it, because it makes them feel super, super uncomfortable, but 2020 was an overwhelming, extremely powerful moment in time when people actually did have time and empathy for understanding what it was all about,” she says.
Critically, though, she adds, we’ve also seen a massive pushback in the past three years, and the fight is far from over. “Ultimately, expunging ourselves of racism in medicine will take time. It’s very deeply entrenched in our system and there needs to be a long and consistent effort to tackle it. We need to make sure we don’t lose momentum.”
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