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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Rupa Marya demonstrates the courage required to contest the neocolonial erasure of Palestine
Description: Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician and activist. She's been a major part of revolutionary health initiatives like the Justice Study, which looks at the links between police violence and health in Black, brown and Indigenous communities, and Seeding Sovereignty, a group that promotes Indigenous autonomy in climate action. She's also the co-author, with Raj Patel, of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. Inflamed is a book that can help us locate the roots of disease in a system of overproduction that pumps so much toxicity into our communities.In September 2024, Marya was put on...