Nurse researchers Jordan Bosse and Raeann LeBlanc are organizing a really exciting digital storytelling project centering the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming nurses. Learn more about their work in the except below and get more information by visiting the project website (link here). Why are you doing this project? Transgender and nonbinary nurses are practically... Continue Reading →
Nurses in the Diaspora
Join Kularts for online convenings centered around the upcoming project Nursing These Wounds. Nursing These Wounds investigates the impacts of colonization on diasporic Pilipinx health and caregiving, particularly through the lens and stories of Pilipinx nurses, whose experiences with Westernized medical education and subsequent migrations laid the groundwork for the continuing global export of Pilipino... Continue Reading →
Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing
Join the crew over at NurseManifest for the series they are putting on entitled "Overdue Reckoning on Racism and Nursing." Led by nurse-midwife Dr. Lucinda Canty and supported by Dr. Peggy Chinn and Dr. Christina Nyriati, this series begins on September 12th and will reoccur every Saturday for five weeks. Learn more at NursingManifest (link... Continue Reading →
Reading-to-Action
As we think about the additional work that needs to be done in our discipline to build a more just, equitable future for nursing, we see merit in reading important works. But we also know reading is not enough. Join us for a Reading-to-Action initiative, a collaborative effort including Jess and co-conspirator, nurse radical, and... Continue Reading →
Nursing Mutual Aid event!
Join Nursing Mutual Aid for a bilingual Twitter discussion of documentary Fire and Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change on June 26th, 2020, at 5 pm EST. The documentary, created by http://QueerEcoproject.org in partnership with #QTPOC communities in #PuertoRico & #California, explores intersections of #Climate and sustainability, #HumanRights, #Racism and colonialism, #DisasterCapitalism... Continue Reading →
Juneteenth.
Happy Juneteenth, y'all! Image from the Modern Mama Jama. Radical Nurses Collective honors the collective freedom that was secured on June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of the end of the Civil War and their emancipation. Learn more about Juneteenth from the National Museum of African American History and Culture with... Continue Reading →
Watch the Recording of the “Nursing Solidarity: A Story Circle” Here!
Last night, Radical Nurses and California State University, San Marcos, Ethnic Studies Program hosted our first "Nursing Solidarity: A Story Circle" on Zoom. With powerful and personal short stories, our five presenters modeled vulnerability and moral courage to our audience of 45 nurses and nursing students from around the world. Watch the recording on YouTube... Continue Reading →
Inaugural “Nursing Solidarity: A Story Circle” This Thursday
Please join the Radical Nurses Collective and California State University, San Marcos, Ethnic Studies Program, this Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 7:30PM EST for our inaugural Nursing Solidarity: A Story Circle (click link to register). Featuring five nurse storytellers who will share with us their reflection on current events. We ask our storytellers, and we... Continue Reading →
Radical Nursing is Antiracist.
Radical Nurses Collective stands in solidarity with protestors agitating all around the United States. We condemn state violence and call for nursing to engage in active, substantive, and good faith ways. Mobilize your nursing identity to support antiracist efforts. Recognize that protests are a manifestation of hundreds of years of systemic and structural oppression. Work... Continue Reading →