Submit your pitch for Black History Month 2025

London Arts and Health
and The Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance

To celebrate Black History Month this year, London Arts and Health and The Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance will commission six artists to explore and showcase their creative practices. This initiative is rooted in the belief that the arts can be a powerful force for health, climate justice, and cultural empowerment.

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‘Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic’

This film was made as part of ‘Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic’. A research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the UKRI Covid-19 Urgent Response Call.

 

'Exposed is a groundbreaking documentary that combines the stories of 19 Black, brown and migrant nurses and midwives to speak about their powerful experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to organise a screening of the film please send us the details of date, time and location so we can let people know about opportunities for people to watch, share and discuss the issues that have come out of the film, as well as what action can be taken.'  

https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-culture-media-society/projects/nursing-narratives

RCN North West Region - North West Multicultural Group

What does 'exposed' mean . . ?

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Black Mental Health Manifesto

"Concrete action is needed to improve mental healthcare for black communities otherwise generations will keep being “held back from achieving their full potential”, a new coalition has warned.

The group said it is calling for “positive change” to alter a system within which it said black people are being failed when they at their most vulnerable.

The coalition – which includes the Black Minds Matter charity, the Centre for Mental Health and Mind as well as smaller grass-roots organisations – has launched what it called the Black Mental Health Manifesto."

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Mental Health / Illness - Parity of Esteem Holistic: Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation - Competency? Diagnosis of Psychoses	Physical health change/revision - WHEN? Objectivity of assessment / Cultural literacy
Black communities and Families Culture, History Radical future? Stigma, Stereotype Social determinants	Racism. Economic, Political determinants Poverty, Housing insecurity Statistics - Admissions / Recourse to MHA Incarceration, Injustice Mental Health Law - Mental Health Act CHANGE/REVISION - when? Coalition

Editorial: Dismantling racism in education: In 2020, the year of the nurse & midwife, “it's time.”

Maya Angelou:

"The plague of racism is insidious,
entering into our minds as smoothly
and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies
to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams"


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Mind (My) Education [Student - Teacher] Individual Ideology Cognitive bias INDIVIDUAL RACISM  reflection - cultural humility SUBJECTIVE Covert Racism  (What information I choose to share/not share) Mental Health Nursing Mental Health Disparities Healthcare Disparities (lived individual experience micro-MACRO aggressions) Cognitive access, languages NURSING?: "Abstracting the individual from

Body COVID crisis Physical Health (General) Nursing Covert Racism Overt Racism Geography - Areas Population Ethnicity Physical environment Statistical evidence - BAME/BIPOC population OBJECTIVE RACE: Physical access - Health access -> BURDEN OF DISEASE 'Placement' variation in experiences. Race in the curriculum - jaundice, "The colour of my skin is..." The visibility of 'whiteness' ..." (Visibility of gender in research...)   Silence is NOT                    (Profiling:) Racial

the context of a racialised society through well-meaning attempts to individualise care must also be critiqued." "Nursing's  ̳transcultural‘ or  ̳multicultural‘ practices, where proficiency is measured by gaining more ― ethnocentric knowledge" Social Determinants of Health Socially determined health risks Covert Racism/subtle abuse (Information I don't read/hear of...) Overt Racism Interpersonal exchange: Outright abuse (criminal) Healthcare Disparities (as experienced collectively micro-MACRO aggressions)  Sinophobic abuse of Asian/Chinese peoples  Social isolation Social exclusion  Social inclusion Social justice, fairness, equality, equity What does 'teamwork' really mean? Peer group (belonging) STRUCTURAL

neutral                                           Violence Education Inst. Diversity in Nurse Education Professors, Degree attainment ... Power: Faculty - Students - Race 'neoliberal discourse' Law & Order The 'Protected Characteristics' Codes of practice - Worldwide Institutional Ideology as 'sustained' in Org. Structures  [policies, governance, audit, reporting] Covert Racism Overt Racism - Political Groups (even if banned) Employment - Short-list, Selection Tokenism Healthcare Disparities - measures - change? Visible BAME/BIPOC in Faculty  "If you can‘t see one, you can‘t be one." #BlackLivesMatter curricula CHANGE championed by - Nursing and Midwifery leadership - RACISM ............ "No SIIR!"

The 'can of worms' that is SIIR infects, pervades and moves around each and all the care domains above and can affect the spiritual also. It can no longer evade individual, collective and institutional attention: action must follow.
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SIIR: structural, individual and ideological racism

A. Burnett, C. Moorley, J. Grant, et al., Dismantling racism in education: In 2020, the YEAR of the nurse & midwife, “IT'S time.”, Nurse Education Today (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104532
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691720311916

Munker illusion: Finding a palette for holistic, person-centred care

Hodges' model - Integrated Care?

It is as obvious as black and white.

Health, social care & education
are bound to be siloed.

Get over it!

What do you want: a rich picture?

Color Assimilation Grid Illusion

"Only the grid is colorful, the rest of the video is in grayscale, but the lower resolution of our color perception makes the color assimilate/blend into the grayscale cells within the human visual system."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-grid-28734535
 

"I've found that the grid works best."  Øyvind Kolås

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#carearchitecture #careresolution #integratedcare

See for original post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-grid-28734535

My source: Massimo

Seeking Care & Global Cultural Neutrality in White Houses(?)

The email concerned a book
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 and posed a question.

Needless to say it caught my attention ...

Is White a Statement or a Neutral Surface for Expression?

This is a question I ask myself, but in respect of Hodges' model.

To what extent is Hodges' model neutral across cultures?

Remove the green, blue and red colours I adopted for the care domains  and what you have is a blank sheet; an empty conceptual space.

Is it empty? 

Very quickly it can become filled with what the person, patient, client, group ... brings with them.

Hodges' model is a stage. Several stages.

It is a theater.

It is a challenge for the performer, as they take their turn. As they navigate the space, they seek to ensure, assure, obtain feedback that the other - listener(s) are with them; whether in agreement or not.
Hodges' model is an arena for personal, group reflection, debate, argument(ation) or as described these days - co-production.

How suitable is #h2cm as a tool to support global health objectives, such as, the Social Development Goals and the Social Determinants of Health (and their ongoing development)? For me, Hodges' model is not just a neutral surface, it is a neutral substrate for the many forms of knowledge needed to solve the problems of the 21st Century.

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	Polite House, Trondheim, Norway, 2012. JVA. The house appears to be made of three stacked and slightly skewed volumes, with touches of colour inside contrasting with the white walls. Photographer credit: © Lars Evanger

My source: Thames & Hudson

Later in the summer - autumn I might post another photo in memory of my father and a holiday ...