Dear Friends and Colleagues: students, staff, faculty,
Please forward this invitation to those who may be interested!
The final texts of this year's Health Ethics Book club include CN Lester’s Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us (2017), with two podcast episodes and an article. While book clubs do not make the change needed, folx attending these sessions have reported making substantive, meaningful changes in their teaching, policymaking, clinical practice, community engagement, and interpersonal relationships. This event will include up to 9.9 CNE credits (disclosure below my signature).
The discussion will be on Tuesday April 27, 2021, from 12p-1:30p (CST).
You must register in advance for this meeting: https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodu2gqjstH9Pn5sDKVgTYbxQj8u7YJV09
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Additional Reading:
NOTE: You do not need to have finished the book to attend! One of my goals is to get folks together to talk. If you've started thinking about this by having made investment in the text, then please come. If you'd like to stay up-to-date with announcements about the Health Ethics Book Club, including hearing what some discussion questions are before the meeting, join the mailing list here.
Text availability:
This year the Health Ethics Book Club, A Public Syllabus is critically examining white feminism, especially within the context of nursing. You can find the current version of the living document at this link.
In solidarity toward abolition,
Em
Em Rabelais, PhD, MBE, MS, MA, RN
pronouns: fae/femme, they/themme
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development Nursing Science
University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing
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2020-2021 Health Ethics Book Club, A Public Syllabus: white Feminism and Nursing
2019-2020 Health Ethics Book Club, A Public Syllabus: Racism and whiteness
In the spirit of healing, I ask that we who are settler colonialists acknowledge and honor the original peoples of the Chicagoland area, which is unceded and stolen land: the Three Fires Confederacy: Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe Nations; and other Tribal Nations—Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and the many other Indigenous people who call it home—past, present, future. This acknowledgement is necessary but insufficient without also honoring through Indigenization and decolonization, as defined by those from whom we colonizers stole the land.
Health Ethics Book Club: Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by CN Lester
Live discussion on April 27, 2021.
This activity will award 9.9 contact hours upon successful completion.
Criteria for successful completion include reading the book Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by CN Lester, the associated texts, attendance of the live book discussion, credit awarded commensurate with participation, and completion of the post activity online evaluation form.
There is no conflict of interest for anyone in a position to control content of this activity.
University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)
