#16Days: Peace Is Not Just the Absence of War: A Filipina Physician’s Reflection on Care, Power, and Exclusion

The Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada (WPSN-C)’s latest publication, WPS at 25 and Canada’s CNAP3: Feminist Reflections on Progress and Gaps is edited by Katrina Leclerc, Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic and Sarah Keeler.

Today’s #16Days reading is Chapter 15: Peace Is Not Just the Absence of War: A Filipina Physician’s Reflection on Care, Power, and Exclusion by Denise Koh.

Denise reflected on her chapter at the publication launch.

In some ways, I am the system. And yet I am not immune to the same silencing, dismissal, and moral injury that so many racialized women in care roles experience across Canada. This tension — of being both inside and excluded — is where I write from.

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The views in this blog are those of the author only and do not necessarily represent those of the WPSN-C or its membership.

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