A great pleasure to have been part of this!

C’était un plaisir d’avoir cette discussion avec chers collègues, les Dr.s Jean-Michel Leduc et Margaret Henri! Je me suis rappelé que mes racines au Québec vont pour un trentaine d’années!

How do we create spaces for critical conversations in #MedEd? Dr. Saleem Razack, Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed and Thirusha Naidu discuss, highlighting the challenges & opportunities in addressing systemic issues within healthcare: bit.ly/4mRp7m8 @thirushanaidu.bsky.social @saleemrazackmd.bsky.social

This was another healing and transformative conversation for me. I do hope you give it a listen!

It was an honour to be the host for the series. For me, it was a series of healing conversations, and I hope you will find good learning within it!

Voting is an act of community and belonging. I always get emotional when I vote. I see that first day in 🇨🇦 so long ago, landing in Halifax, with all the possibilities it held. We must preserve the community belonging that gives us all a place and a say in this amazing society.

I am so honoured to be this year’s recipient of the AFMC award for Exemplary National Leadership in Academic Medicine. I am beyond grateful to have been part of the amazing medical education community in Canada. www.afmc.ca/awards/

In other times, I would have tweeted about how I am still haunted by the pain and lonely healing in All of Us Strangers. Doing so seems so self-indulgent in this world of today. I feel underserving of such expression. The guilt of surviving and being able to live my life.

If nations are imagined communities, Benedict Anderson's definition which resonates with me, then history is also imagined and co-created. There are the facts of what happened--can be disputed or proven etc., but the meaning is perspectival, & history simply becomes rhetoric for some argument. 🧵

What was the last straw that brought me here? Noticing the patterns of subtle white supremacy on my feeds—such as posts about the “Zimbabwefication” of the world—African history as if race and colonization never existed. How can knowledge ever be uncoerced under such manipulative algorithms?

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Well, here I am, on the other side. To see what I write about check out X: @SaleemRazack. Basically, I am a physician, medical educator and anti-racism researcher (in medical education).