Just like that, another year has flown by. I think it’s called getting older. This haiku kinda captures it: I am super tiredWhere did all of my money goMy back hurts Welcome back to my occasional newsletter. It feels to […]
Season’s Greetings Read Post »
It’s summer in Kulin country and the snakes are active! I was born in the year of the snake and so this Lunar New Year I’m feeling especially attuned to the way snakes engage in seasonal transformation. I hope that
Year of the Snake newsletter Read Post »
7 January 2025Tēnā koutou e Justice Select Committee members My name is Dr Ruth De Souza (FACN). I am writing this submission as an individual New Zealand citizen. I write this as a Registered Nurse, educator, and a migrant to
Submission to the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill 2025 Read Post »
I have spent most of my career working with birthing people. I will declare at the outset that I am interested in a critical, holistic, lifespan approach to reproductive and sexual health, rather than a biologically deterministic view. Just as
Why don’t we treat menopause the way we treat birth? Read Post »
“…the neo-liberal academy has compelled me to compete and compare, to work on my own, to overwork, and to count narrowly. At various times, neoliberal ideologies have crept into my mind/writing/body, breaking me down. The academy’s “finite games” of winners
Why write/read book chapters? Community, connection, and creativity. Read Post »
VALA Libraries, Technology and the Future invited my fabulous colleague from Melbourne University Fiona Tweedie and I to participate in a webinar discussion as part of Open Access Week. The webinar was hosted by VALA President, Katie Haden. VALA are an
Can open data disrupt power relations in health and enhance consumer participation? Read Post »
March is an exciting month for me with events and exhibitions about M/others and birthing, starting with a panel at M/Other at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. “Last year, more than 300,000 children were born in Australia, yet systems in
Birthing, M/othering Read Post »
So, this incredible book Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures, Edited by Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, Brandon Brown has been published, and what a thrill to have a chapter in it! The
Teaching into a headwind and Nursing a Radical Imagination Read Post »
