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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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'Resilience' means an individual has successfully adapted to violent and intolerable conditions—so I wrote a quick post on the dangers of misusing the concept, especially when it comes to discussing Palestinian children disabled by the ongoing genocide. blindarchive.substack.com/p/stop-calli...

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton's avatar Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social
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This post is mostly a shout out to the work of Palestinian health scholar Rita Giacaman who says: "All too often, Palestinian ‘resilience’ is over-rated & used as a means of avoiding acknowledging & addressing the issue of injustice to Palestinians..."

blindarchive.substack.com/p/stop-calli...

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