Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
@oniblackstock.bsky.social
Founder & ED @ HealthJustice & Grounded Innovation Lab • Primary care & HIV doc🫀 • Bio @ www.healthjustice.co/our-team/ • @akinfe.bsky.social’s wife 🪷 • 👦🏿 & 🐶’s mama • Lenapehoking • she/her(s)/yeye• #BlackMedSky #MedSky #HIVSky #PublicHealthSky #QueerSky
Exactly. Mistrust doesn't come out of the blue. It is a symptom, a sign of underlying systems that have harmed and marginalized people.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Exactly. Mistrust doesn't come out of the blue. It is a symptom, a sign of underlying systems that have harmed and marginalized people.
I'm so sorry that your daughter experienced this mistreatment and that you had to bear witness.
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm so sorry that your daughter experienced this mistreatment and that you had to bear witness.
Agree - thank you!
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Agree - thank you!
Then I started thinking, in that moment, harm was touching the patient, her mom, her baby, and the baby's early reproductive cells (a potential 4th generation).
This is one way trauma gets passed on unless we can break the cycle, end the -isms.
This is one way trauma gets passed on unless we can break the cycle, end the -isms.
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Then I started thinking, in that moment, harm was touching the patient, her mom, her baby, and the baby's early reproductive cells (a potential 4th generation).
This is one way trauma gets passed on unless we can break the cycle, end the -isms.
This is one way trauma gets passed on unless we can break the cycle, end the -isms.
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Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
This actually applies to a lot of health professions - PAs, NPs, PT - our nation's fastest growing health care workforce.
If you care about health, advocate against this regulation.
If you care about health, advocate against this regulation.
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thanks for flagging this!
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thanks for flagging this!
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