Rhea Boyd, MD

@RheaBoydMD

A pediatrician and hopeful participant in democracy. Trying to do the right thing by the children of the world, one day at a time.

Joined March 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Jan 2017

    He who lifted us.

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    The first two Native-American women to serve in Congress embrace one another. ❤️😭

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    17 Nov 2018

    We, in PH, should also know about the socio-political place-making processes that shape where we live, acting as sorting mechanisms across the axes of race & class. Else "we" fall into geographic determinism- e.g. "the zip code you live in determines your lief expectancy"

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    17 Nov 2018

    We should all know about the forcible sterilization of disabled, Black, indigenous people. "Mississippi appendectomies" are not in the past. CA prisons just stopped forcibly sterilizing incarcerated women, & up North, Native women are suing b/c they coerced into being sterilized.

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  7. Jan 3

    This thread is 🔥 and required reading for my pediatric and public health colleagues! thank you for this! Just truth after truth! Wheeewwwww

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  8. Jan 2

    Good read by It’s also a great (and brief) refresher on the current push for criminal reform and where it falls short, federally and at the state and local level.

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    29 Dec 2018

    A Yemeni mother fought for 17 months to overcome the U.S. travel ban and visit her sick 2-year-old son. He has died only days after she arrived

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    Jan 1

    The mother of on the fatal shooting of her 7-year old daughter. Killer pulled up to the family in his red truck and fired shots directly into their car. Jazmine died at the scene. Dec 30. Houston. Murderer is a white male, 40s and is still at large.

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    Jan 1

    For many Americans, a shutdown is a minor inconvenience. But for Native American tribes, it can cripple the most basic community functions. Among the programs curtailed: a food program that fed 90,000 last year. My first report of 2019, with

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  12. Jan 2

    Great thread. 👇🏿 Also makes a pretty good case for home ownership as a form of reparations for slavery if you ask me.

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  13. 30 Dec 2018

    Ladies, following and learning together on here has been a joy! Thank you for including me!

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    Beats by Dre headphones for $20 a week. After a 61-week payment plan, cost balloons to $1,219 $1,379 for an Xbox that retails at $299. $2,834 for a TV that sells for $717. These are the predatory prices peddled to people of color by Rent-a-Center.

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    26 Dec 2018
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    Children don’t just “die” in custody.

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  17. 26 Dec 2018

    The coercion and threat of imprisonment used to force labor *after* slavery has a racist and gendered legacy. It seeks to eliminate black women’s agency, which in a republic built on choice, eliminates their power. Read this.

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    This incident and this tweet are the epitome of how white supremacy culture functions: It declares whiteness the default. Anything outside of it, like his dreads, are disposable. Assimilating to whiteness brings reward: “a good team player.” No, no, no.

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    US passes first anti-lynching law after Senate vote

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  20. Retweeted
    19 Dec 2018

    JUST IN: Senate votes to make lynching a federal crime

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    The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would explicitly make lynching a federal crime. Congress has failed to pass similar legislation over 200 times.

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