It describes how Black people experience early health deterioration due to stress triggered by systemic racism.
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In fact, in weathered populations, people and families have multiple morbidities.
It can be autoimmune disorders like lupus…andnow its COVID-19.
In weathered populations, people and families have multiple morbidities.
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Arline Geronimus, ScD, is a professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. She coined the term ‘weathering’ to describe how Black people experience early health deterioration due to the stress caused by racism and social and economic adversity.
Though the compounded stressors weigh heavily on many communities, the load is particularly heavy for Black women.
But, says Dr. Geronimus, community-support programs can help to alleviate the effects of weathering.
Black Girls Breathingis an excellent example of this jot down of program.
Tamika Middleton, a member of the collective, has experienced the burnout that comes with community organizing.
How do we think about how we use our traditions as resistance?
Engaging in ritual and building altarsall of that is healing justice.
Those are our traditions.
No, but theyre a start.
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