Death by Chocolate Cyst: What If My Illness Had A Voice | Antoinette Cooper | TEDxColumbiaUniversity скачать в хорошем качестве

Death by Chocolate Cyst: What If My Illness Had A Voice | Antoinette Cooper | TEDxColumbiaUniversity

Narrative medicine takes on a full-bodied expression in the form of Antoinette Cooper's powerful poetry and TEDx talk. While recounting her years of struggle with endometriosis, Antoinette navigates territories of female biases, racial biases, medicinal biases, and the politics of pain with moving grace. Visit her website at www.antoinettecooper.com. Antoinette Cooper is turning her tumultuous healing journey into poetry that broadens the narrative of medicine. As a Columbia University Poetry MFA candidate, Antoinette explores concepts like what a scar would speak if it had a mouth, or how a tumor would court a woman. Also, in sharing complicated personal truths she challenges the ubiquity of silence around black female bodies and how they are viewed and handled in science and medicine. Giving voice is an act of courage. Bearing witness is an act of courage. And it is through the act of storytelling that transformation can occur. Antoinette was born on the island of Jamaica and raised on the island of New York. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, is a poet, leadership coach, educator, and world traveler. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx