{"id":261,"date":"2022-03-19T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-03-19T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T03:40:19","slug":"allyship-and-collective-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/allyship-and-collective-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Allyship and collective liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pai reminds us that global health was born out of colonialism and white supremacy -still firmly centered in power and privilege.\u00a0 Two-thirds of GH agencies have HQs in just 3 countries: USA, UK, and Switzerland. Focus is on generosity and saviorism, hoarding vaccines, and hand-outs with the trickle-down charity model. He quotes <a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/innodim\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/innodim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/innodim\" aria-label=\"Ijeoma Nnodim Opara\">Ijeoma Nnodim Opara<\/a>,&#8221;\u201cA critical analysis of colonialism is fundamentally intersectional and must locate its construction, and thus, deconstruction, in the intersection of white supremacy, global anti-Blackness, patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, homo-transphobia, fatphobia, and xenophobia.\u201d Excellent discussion of allyship as <em>practice <\/em>rather than identity &#8211; as &#8220;co-disruptors.&#8221; Good tools for white people and institutions to practice allyship, plus approaches for solidarity and collective liberation. He quotes Indigenous elder,\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/lillanetwork.wordpress.com\/about\/\" href=\"https:\/\/lillanetwork.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/lillanetwork.wordpress.com\/about\/\" aria-label=\"Lilla Watson\">Lilla Watson <\/a>&#8220;<em>If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/madhukarpai\/2022\/03\/15\/disrupting-global-health-from-allyship-to-collective-liberation\/?sh=16eef1c54e62\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/madhukarpai\/2022\/03\/15\/disrupting-global-health-from-allyship-to-collective-liberation\/?sh=16eef1c54e62<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pai reminds us that global health was born out of colonialism and white supremacy -still firmly centered in power and privilege.\u00a0 Two-thirds of GH agencies have HQs in just 3 countries: USA, UK, and Switzerland. Focus is on generosity and saviorism, hoarding vaccines, and hand-outs with the trickle-down charity model. He quotes Ijeoma Nnodim Opara,&#8221;\u201cA critical analysis of colonialism is fundamentally intersectional and must locate its construction, and thus, deconstruction, in the intersection of white supremacy, global anti-Blackness, patriarchy, capitalism,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decolonization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}