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 »
Sukhmani Khorana, Bhavya Chitranshi and I recently completed research about the experiences of six cisgender South Asian-Australian women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design by Georgia Hodgkinson. A note about language in this report: The South Asian “women”
NEW MOTHERS AND APPS DURING COVID-19 Read Post »
The new Codes of Conduct for Nurses and Midwives in Australia have made the news. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) have set expectations around culturally safe practice in the health system for nurses and midwives who comprise
Five myths about cultural safety Read Post »
As a clinician and educator, I have long been interested in how to prepare nurses for professional practice. Schon uses a metaphor of terrain made up of high, hard ground overlooking a swamp which Street (1991) has extended to nursing
How do we teach ethics? Intersectionality, care failure and moral courage Read Post »
I am speaking at the WT | Wearable Technologies conference in Sydney next month. I spoke to Wearable Technologies Australia (WTA) about the future of the wearable tech industry and some of the challenges the industry is facing. Check out
Ruth De Souza on Wearable Technology Read Post »
Social and economic disadvantage are important contributors to poor maternal and perinatal outcomes in high-income countries such as Australia. For example Australian research shows women from refugee backgrounds have higher rates of stillbirth, fetal death in utero and perinatal mortality
Women’s health across cultures Read Post »
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale focuses on women living in a theocratic totalitarian regime in a newly created dystopian, pronatalist society called Gilead. The regime attributes declining fertility to women’s rights, same sex relationships and an environment damaged beyond repair,
What can The Handmaid’s Tale teach us about intersectionality in institutional life? Read Post »
