Dec 21, 2020
In her book Eloquent Rage, Dr. Brittney Cooper says, “how it
feels to be a Black woman ... our victories belong everyone even
though we do all of the work.”
In this episode of Black Oxygen, Lilliann Paine, the Chief of Staff
for the City of Milwaukee Health Department, talks about the work
it took for racism to be named as a public health crisis by the
Wisconsin Public Health Association and in the City of Milwaukee.
In pointing to the work of Dr. Camara Jones, Lilliann talks about
how the work of naming racism as a key driver to the health of
communities is not new - but what happens is that the work of Black
women often gets erased from the narrative. Lilliann also discuss
the impact that working in public health during this COVID19
pandemic has had on her personally. In the end, she reminds us all
to, “listen to Black women, trust Black women, and cite Black
women.”
Links to things discussed in the conversation
BARHII Framework/Model -
https://www.barhii.org/barhii-framework
Dr. Camara Jones - Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a
Gardener’s Tale
Creative Health Collective -
https://chealthc.info