I am white and educated. I have certain privilege that come along with these attributes. But I also made below the poverty line last year, my children are on Medicaid and I’m a single mom. These are attribute that put me squarely in the “have- not” category in the world of privilege and power transactions. I think about this a lot in [...]
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I can’t imagine having to wait months to see a specialist. I remember in January of 2008 when my son was diagnosed with a rare pediatric disease, Juvenile-onset Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis(JORRP), a condition in which benign tumors grow in the larynx with the danger of growing to the point of airway obstruction. I walked out of [...] |
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