SAHM to RN to MD: a non-trad's path to med school

 I wanted to take some time today to highlight some incredibly powerful Black and Native voices. The first is Amber Starks, aka Melanin Mvskoke. This essay  is an incredibly powerful piece on the unique intersectionality of Black Indigenous people, and one I sincerely hope you will take the time to read in full. The following is just an excerpt from the linked essay.  "Many Black Natives are also deliberately and willfully seeking new ways to show up as our whole selves, as equally Black and equally Native, in our daily lives. We are challenging, interrogating, and dismantling the political borders placed upon us. By choosing to exist as Black and Native and owning our dual identities, we are an affront to these very systems that seek to erase our Indigeneity and marginalize our Blackness. We are reclaiming our right to self-determination and exercising bodily and cultural autonomy by inhabiting and celebrating both of our peoples. Many of us have learned to root our full...