could I email some pieces then? 🥺

As always, love to my FGLI medical family. It has been an exhausting year for us but I hope you know so many of us are not going to stop bringing attention to these issues.

Thank you to @KevinMD for giving me a space to talk about it.

kevinmd.com/2025/12/stud...

being targeted and excluded from the health professions. It's so important to read between the lines with actions from our federal government, and do what we can to be educated on what is likely (and has always) been the true motivation for these changes.

Because I am tired of Black women having to greet the first moments of motherhood with fear, as if joy is something they must earn rather than something they deserve."

If being vocal means that even one Black woman is more likely to survive childbirth, then I welcome the discomfort my honesty may bring.

"I will keep speaking up. I will keep insisting on empathy. I will keep pushing my peers to interrogate their biases, even if it makes me "less likable" or "too outspoken."

I can't stop writing because the world keeps giving me things to write about, especially things that are so angering and frustrating in a field I have dreamed of being in, but has (and still is) done so much harm to minoritized patients.

Sharing this ending quote from the op-ed