Anti-racist message

The team behind the Accessible Narrative Medicine digital library acknowledge racism as a public health crisis. We are committed to examining and dismantling racism and its cycles of harm by first centering the work of artists and creatives who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities. We center these voices in our curriculum, facilitator trainings, and community workshops.

With this intention, we foster empathetic listening to the narratives of historically underheard communities. We make room for a wide range of perspectives and lived experience with illness, healing, and the healthcare system. And we facilitate conversations that challenge bias and stereotypes in these systems and in ourselves. Ultimately, this work is meant to disrupt an ableist, heteronormative, and white supremacist culture that has prevailed in healthcare, then move people to action—toward dialogue, transformation, and repair.

The team recognizes that dismantling racism is a lifelong process. We created the Accessible Narrative Medicine digital library as one set of tools to flatten hierarchies in our healthcare system. This library is meant to be explored, adapted, critiqued, and expanded, not closed as some definite authority.We hope everyone finds a way to use it to transform oppressive systems and make them more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just.