A quote card with a light tie dye background. "No disease, especially tubrculosis, should be about capital. - Dr. Edward Robitzek in The Black Angels by Maris Smilios"
Wealth has a large impact on quality of care, or even if one gets care, as individuals like Dr. Robitzek saw in his personal and professional life. How does income impact a person’s experience with TB, both today and in the past? #TBReaders
NEW: The “Why, why, why” of tuberculosis – Why storytelling is integral to the fight against TB
by @leslieenane.bsky.social
@madhupai.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/12/01/t...
A powerful feature of this year’s #UnionConf was the inclusion of four authors breathing new life into TB advocacy.
📘Stigmatized, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan
📙Phantom Plague, @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
📗The Black Angels, @mariasmilios.bsky.social
📕Everything is Tuberculosis, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
It was a huge honor for me to moderate a panel with authors of 4 new books on tuberculosis at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen
Big thanks to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa
Please watch the recording 👇🏽
youtu.be/rI629blqReM
Thank you @madhupai.bsky.social for your fierce advocacy and for uplifting these stories that we tell.
But mostly thank you for making this happen ❤️
So pleased to meet @mariasmilios.bsky.social in person!
She kindly agreed to attend our biggest tuberculosis conference to talk about her book "The Black Angels" - the story of Black nurses who helped find a cure for tuberculosis
Read more at www.mariasmilios.com
Wonderful to hear @mariasmilios.bsky.social speak about lessons from her book The Black Angels to our present day crisis in TB
@theunion.org conference in Copenhagen
www.mariasmilios.com/the-black-an...
For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.
Interviewing 1 TB book author = cool
Interviewing 4 amazing TB book authors = amazing!
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan
Join us in Copenhagen at @theunion.org Conference in November!
conf2025.theunion.org
Delighted that 4 amazing authors will join Union TB conference this year!
Thrilled to be moderating the panel with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @mariasmilios.bsky.social, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
Read about their TB books 👇🏽
communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...
I’m honored to be part of this incredible group of authors
Using my voice & the story of the Black Angels to help eradicate this disease beside such extraordinary & dedicated people TB research has been such a gift 🙏
@madhupai.bsky.social
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
@nadinesmith.bsky.social
TB is the # 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to.
New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan bring fresh advocacy
communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...
Thank you
I fell hard for @lauriestories.bsky.social's "The Aviator and the Showman" and you will, too: it's a glorious work of narrative nonfiction. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
Thank you
Really?? I didn’t even know it existed. Can you take some pictures and send them to me so I can make a post. This is pretty awesome.
Let’s not mince words: these are concentration camps in the Everglades
And yes those are cages
Wow. I had no idea about city hall
❤️
Currently reading…
The Black Angels
(74th book of 2025) #Booksky 📚
Can I get a hallelujah? 😇😉
The US led the way in fighting malnutrition, and USAID provided a miracle peanut paste that brings kids back from the brink -- until now. Starvation is a problem that we can actually solve, but we're now retreating from the fight. Here's what I found in West Africa: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
With all these Feds in masks, MAGA has to be concerned.
Remember during Covid they all thought it was unhealthy and you rebreathe diseases!
Make Agents Healthy Again!
Charlatans running the country
"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."
I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today.
I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.
Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.
One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
Trump’s America👇
Guys raging over a street sign for the Black Angels & my book that tells their story
This fury is born from a culture that fears truth, science, & Black history
I share this b/c I refuse to
let them erase these women again
@nadinesmith.bsky.social
@madhupai.bsky.social