Tell Me Your Health Care Stories

Reach me at tmyhcs@gmail.comOr on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tmyhcs https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/stand-with-the-mashpeePlease sign before May 4 to help keep Mashpee land sovereign! Timestamps:00:30 Content warning01:25 “Home” – in honor of HCW worldwide, discusses life and death in hospitals02:40 “Equilibrium” – discusses philosophy04:33 “Change with me” – discusses ancestral trauma from cycles of violence, white privilege, history of white people holding slaves, mentions sexual assault. Very inspired by some readings from Coalition of Anti Racist Whites https://www.carw.org/

Story notes for Brittney Episode 1Obviously feel free to skip any content that you don’t feel like hearing for whatever reason

Hello, and welcome to my trailer! So, this is going to be my very first episode. My name is River Andres, and I use they/them pronouns. I am a nonbinary white person. I live with my partner Joe and three cats. In fact, I think one of them just walked past.So! This is my trailer, so I’m really excited to invite you guys to join. hi Cado (my kitty avocado walked past). So the format’s gonna be mostly interview. I might do a few podcasts where I’m just kinda talking myself, um, but mostly I think interview, and we’re gonna be focusing on people’s healthcare stories. So I’m thinking about an hour length for each episode. We’ll see, just depending on how long people’s stories go, um. I’m gonna do my best to put them out every month. I’m still kind of figuring out the technology, still figuring out Garageband, so just bear with me if you can. Um… I might put in some of my own episodes, maybe 10-15 or 20 minutes, maybe, for my own stuff, but my main objective is threefold:I’m trying to kind of help people to – support people in transforming the healthcare trauma they have experienced through storytelling. Another goal is to bring attention to this sort of hierarchical system that I feel is pretty toxic, prioritizing provider knowledge over patient knowledge, over body knowledge, over wisdom that all of us have. And, also, to build a better healthcare system.So with all of that said, you know, the question is how do we make everything better? And I don’t know the answer, and I don’t think any one individual can do that. So, I’m trying to put myself out there with this podcast in order to find more people with similar experiences and perspectives, who want to create something better than what we have, essentially. So yeah, feel free to holler at me. You can email me at tmyhcs@gmail.com, and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible. I’ve already got a few people lined up, and I’m really excited! And, um, yeah, we’ll try to get this going as soon as possible! Alright, I love you guys! I’m super excited to do this, and umm yeah, that’s about it.Kay, bye!

My goal is to focus on the US Healthcare system, interviewing folks who wish to share their stories. My goal is threefold: 1) transform healthcare trauma via storytelling, 2) to bring attention to a toxic hierarchical system that prioritizes provider knowledge over collective and individual body knowledge, and 3) build a healthier healthcare system. Help me seek out, co-create, and cultivate those systems, people and ways of being that can lead us to health. I am always open to constructive feedback, input and more healthcare stories – feel free to write to me at tmyhcs@gmail.com. I will try to get back to you as soon as I can.