Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2020 Oct;47(5):671-676. doi: 10.1177/1090198120950194. Epub 2020 Aug 18.
April is National Minority Health Month in the United States. The first week of April is National Public Health Week. This year, both occasions passed as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and, in the process, rendered remarkably clear the magnitude of the United States' collective shortcomings in advancing population health equity-particularly as related to dominant narratives of health and data politics. Drawing from critical theory, I use essay to contextualize present COVID-19 discourse and poetry to situate this discourse within a broader historical arc of the United States' racist, classist, and homophobic proclivities in times of public health crises. I use the combination of essay/poem as creative praxis to analyze and reflect on our present moment in relation to public health pasts and to raise questions about public health research, education, and data futures-offering a critical commentary on the intersections of infectious diseases, structural inequality (e.g., racism), data politics, and public health violence.
4 月是美国的少数民族健康月。4 月的第一周是国家公共卫生周。今年，这两个时期都恰逢 COVID-19 大流行之际，在此过程中，美国在推进人口健康公平方面的集体缺陷变得非常明显——尤其是与健康和数据政治的主导叙事有关。从批判理论出发，我使用散文来将当前的 COVID-19 话语进行背景化，并使用诗歌将这种话语置于美国在公共卫生危机时期的种族主义、阶级主义和恐同倾向的更广泛历史轨迹内。我使用散文/诗歌的组合作为创造性实践，来分析和反思我们目前的时刻与公共卫生过去的关系，并就公共卫生研究、教育和数据的未来提出问题——对传染病、结构性不平等（例如，种族主义）、数据政治和公共卫生暴力的交叉点进行批判性评论。
