Beyond Do No Harm Principles Session #5: Self Managed and Community Care
This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #8, how health care providers can stop supporting prosecution in cases against people who manage their own care or offer community-based care, fail to seek care, refuse care, or fail to disclose their private medical information.
Speakers: Dr. Laura Mintz, Farah Diaz-Tello (If/When/How), Dr. Jamila Perritt (Physicians for Reproductive Health), and IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie. They share ways in which care is criminalized and how to resist this, in a session moderated by IC's very own Transformative Justice fellow, Shira Hassan.
Graphic Notes
Illustrated by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman
Image Description: Graphic Notes by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman. Beyond Do No Harm Session 5: Self-managed and Community Care with Dr. Laura Mintz, Dr. Jamila Perritt, Farah Diaz-Tello and moderated by Shira Hassan. Image of two people clasping each other's hand against a teal background. The left half of the graphic includes the question "What can I do?" and responses such as "Reflect on your own appetite for punishment", "Learn to de-escalate self, others, and the environment around you", "Ask yourself: Who is aligned with me? Who am I prepared to be in conflict with?" and "Reflect: What holes can I poke in these systems?" On the right half, the words "LIBERATORY HARM REDUCTION" appear in bold, along with word bubbles saying "We have to make space for people to care for themselves in the way they need." and "We (medical providers) believe ourselves to be good and uniquely absolved from doing harm. How can we be worthy of the trust people give us?"]