📍Gadigal/Wangal land
🌟 Community Organising
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📍Gadigal/Wangal land
- Self defence 🥊
- Growing food 🥕
- Outdoor strength training 💪
- Radical education 🧠
Interested?
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Workshops I can facilitate at Jura Books.
I just need interest to make one of these happen, message me if keen:
- Good Conflict in Community
- Anarchist Reading Groups
- Not A Set Doctrine - Radical Education
- Accountability Workshop
- Mutual Aid Social Therapy
- Maps of Care
In critical physiotherapy the “human” is deeply political: humanity is embedded in history, shaped by it and myriad social forces, & conditioned by relations of power in which
some are able to assert their status & privilege at the
expense of others.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37688439/
👋 friends in Sydney
I’m looking for medical and health professionals who bulk bill or offer low-cost services for patients.
Please message me 🙏
Free Communication Skills Workshop this Saturday @ Jura Books
The limit of static theories and the need for a philosophy of movement.
@neilmaltby.bsky.social @mandhc.bsky.social @diarmuiddenneny.bsky.social @danielarbilla.bsky.social @eivinden.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/mattlow9...
I had the pleasure of presenting at the New Zealand Pain Society Conference this week 😍
I spoke about the complexities of clinical practice when providing evidence-based practice to people with chronic low back pain & linked them to the conference theme of “equitable outcomes in pain care”
Know someone in Sydney who’d be interested in free outdoor group strength training?
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It often takes me a few goes to understand words like ontology, epistemology, positivist and constructivist…The breakdown in the paper is gold!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34457699/
“System (eg. biomedical orientation), organisational (eg. key performance indicators) and professional (eg. identity as expert) factors compete with person-centred rehabilitation”
Great work by Prof Nicola Kayes
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“Listen to me, learn from me & hear what I’m telling you, it makes me feel like my concerns have been understood”
“Provide a holistic approach to my care that is tailored & looks after my physical, mental, occupational, social, spiritual & intellectual needs”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35384928/
4 of the themes describe what it means to live with chronic pain & 6 of the themes describe what it means to be on a healing journey with pain.
“A Healing Journey with Chronic Pain: A Meta-Ethnography Synthesising 195 Qualitative Studies”
academic.oup.com/painmedicine...
Political, economic, and cultural systems regulate social relations at a societal level, and define resource distribution, impacting pain prevalence and treatment access.
Ideas are organised into three broad categories; justice, access and knowledge
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What determinants play a key role in the lived experience of persistent pain and recovery?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Connections on Gadigal land 👋
Looking for a second-hand:
🌟 Fridge (medium-sized)
🌟 Stainless steel frypan
🌟 Salad bowls
Do you have one of these?
Please DM 📩
What I’ve learnt over the past year or so:
- Most clinicians refuse to learn about politics or social theory
- The ‘social’ in BPS is rarely addressed
- Physical therapists need and deserve clinical supervision
- Education, research and health systems value capital > lived experience
Also:
- Collective liberation
- Guerrilla gardening
- Radical therapy/Liberation psychology
- Intersectional feminism
🙏
Looking for people involved in:
- Social anarchism
- Decolonising
- Queer liberation
- Disability justice
- Fat liberation
- Mutual aid and direct actions
- Transformative justice and abolition
- Indigenous resistance and sovereignty
- Horizontal power systems
- Degrowth
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“Oppressive research practices position people inaccurately as these practices use external lenses for research purposes that serve to create evidence for externally developed research questions and hypotheses.”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Researchers are trained to believe & reproduce assumptions that the social and material world is structured and functions based on Euro-American epistemic dominance.
Globally, researchers adopt methods and approaches based on colonial knowledge systems in lieu of situated or contextual knowledges.
"The political determinants of health create the social drivers - including poor environmental conditions, inadequate transportation, unsafe neighborhoods, and lack of healthy food options - that affect all other dynamics of health."
open.spotify.com/show/7KZBiyS...
“Unsurprisingly, physiotherapy participation in public health conversations tends to be limited. A cultural shift toward increased physiotherapist participation in social initiatives is needed to address proximal causes of their empathetic distress fatigue."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
youtu.be/P9rlZo3q_FY
- Changing how systems operate to support wellbeing of all esp. marginalised
- Community-oriented healing, pain relief becoming a communal responsibility rather than solely medicalised/individualistic
- Community-run healthcare with focus on prevention, education and holistic care
- Solidarity economies which foster collaboration over competition
- Mutual aid with emotional and social support, facilitating shared responsibilities and solidarity
- Worker-run cooperatives
- Working to meet needs rather than growth, thereby shorter work hours
- Radical anti-oppression education
