Chisomo Kalinga, PhD (@chisomowrites) 's Twitter Profile
Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

@chisomowrites

African Illness Narrative & Ethnography | Transdisciplinary #medicalhumanities - HIV&AIDS, SRH | Life as #hypothyroid & #LongCovid | my views | no DMs | 🔄+❤️≠E

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Uri Manor 💔 (@manorlaboratory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

liam cunningham (@liamcunningham1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you’re baffled as to why they’re murdering health workers in Gaza, it’s because they are the people who will testify in court as to what has been done. They are killing the witnesses. Yes, it’s that cynical. For every hasbara reply I’ll post 10. Keep ‘em comin’!

The CTICC is an ableist organisation (@wheelsntoys) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apartheid miseducation succeeded Because à young Black man saying we must give policing back to yt ppl is saying A LOT White policemen used to have braais around burning bodies You want *those* people back in power ?

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD (@chisomowrites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Things are so tough in Malawi right now that people are actually reminiscing about a colonial rule that they never lived under. 😭

Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 (@omarhamadd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not a single bar of soap has entered Gaza in the past five months. Israel continues to ban the entry of all cleaning supplies. Respiratory and skin diseases are spreading at an alarming rate, especially among children. I don’t understand, how could a toothbrush possibly pose a

Bethlehem Tekola, PhD (@bethlehemtekola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have been receiving an increasing number of review requests. Proper peer review takes time & I simply do not have the capacity right now. The current model of relying on unpaid labour and the goodwill of overstretched researchers is unsustainable. A better model is needed.

Ìyándá A. (M.S., PhD(c)) (@yonsportal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

YTs came into Africa and literally rewrote standards of dress. It was no longer deemed “masculine” to wrap their body and waist in fabric, as a way to cool and maneuver freely through the day, therefore pants and nonsensical in the African sun clothing was introduced as “proper”

Marxist Lynchist🇳🇬🇵🇸 (@dklmarxist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

He was completely wilding with that tweet, but I’ve decided I like the phrase and it should be claimed proudly. You looking extremely African today my brother.

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD (@chisomowrites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don’t have anything to say about the ridiculous comment about “extremely African” models holding other to call out than placing the burden on 14 South Sudanese with visibility rather than 1000s of white models means someone has to work harder on his internalised antiblackness.

Judicaelle Irakoze (@judicaelle_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think as black people, we underestimate how much and deep anti-blackness is ingrained and conditioned in us and how much we willingly participate in it. In fact we underestimate how often and easy we get to be active agents of anti-blackness.

Bethlehem Tekola, PhD (@bethlehemtekola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Am I the only one who prefers to say they have worked in a certain area rather than being called an expert? I am not comfortable with that label at all. Maybe because I believe knowledge is always changing & we are always learning & unlearning. I'm not entirely sure, to be honest