This podcast is brought to the Womad. This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Kim Darpo, a registered nurse working in the ER, a blogger, and a mama in Atlanta.

Kim and I talk about nursing school all pregnant, her journey with her newest baby, and a tough but needed conversation on diversity

and health care. I really hope you guys enjoy this episode.

Nasty Energy. Energy.

Y'all, I've got crickets in my d'ams.

I mean, y'all are commenting on stories and people you'd like me to have on the podcast.

Sorry, not being anti-men, I love them, but they have their own space to get away this is ours

but nothing yet in response to my request to know how we are showing up for each

other I get it it's hard You don't want to say the wrong thing or have something be taken out of context and you might be scared of exposing your fragility. I am all of those things. So maybe it's helpful if I keep sharing pieces of my

journey right now and how I am working through racism and bias in myself. I am

guilty of just posting and reposting things in my stories. I am guilty of

performative activism. But be assured now if I repose something it's because

it's important. That post is saying what I haven't been able to or that is a

black voice that I believe is important to listen to and that has helped me break things

down. I don't know what to post on my personal grid on Instagram because

being attacked by white people or constructively criticized by black people

makes me defensive initially and I have to check my privilege and my fragility there.

If you're quick to get defensive please first ask yourself why because I've been

there but as someone who has devoted the majority of their life to helping people,

my silence isn't helping. Your silence isn't helping.

If a doctor accidentally wrote for the wrong dosing on a drip, making it lethal,

where you saw your fellow nurse about to give a med wrong, would you be silent and let more harm be done?

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