Category: Academic Whispers
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Keep knowing you belong here!
You belong here, as do the ocean, your children, your husband, your hopes, your hurdles, your dreams, your desires, the legs that walk this earth, the eyes that see these trees, you belong here, next to things that challenge you, next to moments we face our fears, next to one particular harbor, next to a…
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Keep Nkolika, Nkemjika, Nkiruka, or a time for everything!
Something reminded me, something, that there is time for everything, and at the right time, even if time seemed like never ending dips, or whether once upon a time you stood at the edge of a cliff, and tipped over, everything will seem like ripples on a pond, and your eyes will see, your mind…
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Keep this day of eliminating cervical cancer.
I have known something of the fight some speak off. I still remember what it’s like to be called Osodieme. I knew once we heard those words, this fight would be more than personal. That day is forever etched in my mind like something of the dark people speak off. It’s not that eyes can’t…
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Keep this quiet storm!
The roosters are coming home. Every single one of them. What they forgot is that we are where we are by design. Where they fail to understand or see our worth, we know it to be our worth. Nothing we touch is by accident. We decide too what we touch. So it gives me great…
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Keep this collective “we” if black, female and in academia!
These days I am seeing, not myself, not work, not my family, not my children and lord knows I love all four of them. I am seeing instead a collective we. With insights that help to re-vision a future we. When eyes finally see, it doesn’t float free pretending that “I” am alone in struggle.…
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Keep, keep, sustaining the public’s health!
In 1988, the Institute of Medicine published a report that explored the future of public health. They concluded then that “public health was a vital function that requires broad concern and support in other to fulfill society’s interest in assuring the conditions in which people can be healthy.” Back then, they echoed the critical importance…
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Keep the depths of rain and Stars!
When rain falls, dreams go up. But memories still linger in all places. Dreams too, when you touch rain. We are closing out Cohort 1 of our STARS scholars program, closing out what can only be described as as a year full of hopes and impediments. Yet, we are here and perhaps this was the…
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Keep blessing the boats or what I call Onyelo!
I see the tide clearly. I know the edge of understanding too. Both have carried me out, beyond fear, through right paths and in a darkness so deep. We have been kissed, like a morning star and the wind has turned. We find ourselves near pools of fresh water. We are certain that water loves…
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Keep this simple word for single dose HPV vaccines, It works!
I plucked these words in a room full of powerful women and men this week. It works. A single dose. Like a tree with a million roots. A simple word, is the shortest distance between minds. It works. A single dose. The truth of today. Ripe for tomorrow. For an eternity of dreams. Like seeds…
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Keep the voices of communities!
A friend once said, eyes are how we begin conversations, begin to deeply speak, a friend whose deepest wish was to connect, whose highest dream was community, their voices vividly clear, yet many ignore the thing passing in the sky, thick clouds gathering in sky, eyes blind see nothing, people who claim to fight for…
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Keep treading softly in a place where the skies are grey and look out for places where the skies are blue!
My heart lingers in a place where the skies are grey. My head lingers in a space where the skies are grey. The days are grey. The people I meet are grey. I live through days with people who wear masks and the skies are grey. Come, come see my heart. Some may wonder, is…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 