sienna misses samira

17, she/her eeaao rock scene enthusiast "the only thing more powerful than hate is love"

[animentality]

[blossom2blossom]

also it feels like the show thinks that medical racism is just when black people's health issues are occasionally disproportionately overlooked and it's like... medical racism is not just white doctors being racist to patients of color i fear. medical schools admitting black students and residency programs accepting black doctors at a rate that's lower than half of the actual racial demographics of the state is medical racism i fear (hello emory school of medicine). textbooks not teaching students how to identify skin abnormalities on darker skin and doctor's offices only hanging up health diagrams depicting white people is medical racism i fear. and when the casting decisions the showrunners make directly replicate the way that racism functions, they're not "being realistic" they are literally just being racist. and dickriding the creators and white actors who don't say anything about it is racist too lol

[profeminist]

"LGBTQ+ people with disabilities are often denied an intersectional identity due to inaccessible queer places/events, and the false idea that they cannot have sexual and gender identities. We must remember to make all places accessible and inclusive -- from homes to bars, to parades and festivals -- this month and all year long.

Love these words by Annie Segarra. “It starts with hiring us as organizers, it starts with integrating us into the spaces where we belonged all along. It takes the work to unlearn ableism and misconceptions about disability, it takes effort and care to make our spaces accessible. Pride is for all of us, not some of us.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣”

Photo: @annieelainey 

PRIDE IS FOR ALL OF US, NOT SOME OF US!

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[moldavite]

there's so much i don't know. how do i learn everything by tomorrow

[doctormohansamira]

Look, I'm not inclined to give the writers of The Pitt the benefit of the doubt and interpret their decisions in the most generous way possible. Not after season two. But I'm once again thinking of the Samira in the original script for the first episode and how she felt in many ways like a totally different character, and I'm wondering if part of why season two Samira feels so incongruous with the character we met connects to the writers not adapting their understanding of the character as she evolved throughout production.

The Samira we actually meet in season one is rigid, detail-oriented, constantly running through these scripts in her head about what the correct way of doing things is, because she's afraid of making mistakes. She knows what the consequences are and who bears the brunt of them, so she makes a risk benefit analysis and concludes that it's better to be cautious. It's not about being a people person that just wants to be everyone's friend, it's about caring deeply about patients' humanity, about wanting them to be safe and respected, about figuring out what's wrong with them. She's data driven, she's logical, she's a thinker more than a feeler. She explicitly points to liking to ask patients about their lives because it makes them feel important and understood – it's less about actually caring about the answers, as such, and more about it as a tool to serve her goal of treating them like humans.

In the original script, though, we see her not just listening to what an elderly woman has to say, but doing it because she genuinely finds it fascinating and wants to relay all that to Robby. That's a Samira for whom it would make much more sense to describe as having "skills with the elderly" and suggest she goes into geriatrics! But it's very different from the Samira we actually meet (and I think considerably less interesting, but that's a whole other story).

It raises the question of just who the writers think Samira is and if their interpretation is skewed by not considering what actually makes it to the screen.

[valtsv]

i've had enough of being so brave about it i want to start screaming

[leehallfae]

i bet it feels good as fuck to be a piece of sourdough bread that gets dipped in olive oil with various seasoning & herbs

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[plumslices]

Your misbehaving boyfriend is not funny to me

[cutecipher]

fuuuuck i forgot to give a shit about stupid bullshit that doesnt matter 🤦‍♀️

[lesbianherstorian]

lesbians of color marching at the los angeles christopher street west pride parade, june 1979

[cemeteryseven]

my great-grandmas kitchen window

[valtsv]

i hate it when people ask me to "explain my thought process" like hell if i know

[valtsv]

"what's going on in that head of yours?" nothing i want to be a part of

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[samirasystole]

FRONTRUNNER SEPIDEH MOAFIIIII

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result