Layal Liverpool is a virologist, immunologist, science journalist and author of the book: Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill. In it, she exposes some of the medical community’s blind spots and shows how racism creates inequality in the field of health. That includes myths about the Black body, the norm of the White body, not taking people of colour’s complaints seriously, and the impact of racism on mental health. Liverpool illustrates how racism is not just a social problem, but also a public health crisis that requires urgent action. At Exploring Stories, she will sit down with the renowned Dutch poet Radna Fabias, who is currently working on a book, Obstructies (Obstructions), about the bureaucratic nightmare that threatens to envelop caring for another person. A conversation about illness, the sick body, and the unequal social structures around it, with an emphasis on institutional racism.
She talks to Babs Gons, who replaces Radna Fabias.
Moderator: Mariam El Maslouhi.
English spoken
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