Is There Room for Us Here?
You guys, I miss blogging. An awful lot has changed over the last year, and so much of it’s for the better (infinitely better), but…
Tag: classism
Microaggressions for Straddlers
I think there's a rule somewhere to the effect of “never blog when you're mad” but I'm going to break it. It's funny, I was…
Using a 0-10 Pain Scale Effectively
--puts on nurses cap--
Practitioners of all types have an inclination to move against a purely subjective measurement tool but this is really a disse…
Acupuncture for the New Economy
Or, Barbara Ehrenreich Explains It All, or Why I Couldn't Finish My NCCAOM Survey
Acupunking in the Tomato Capital of Canada
This weekend I packed my needles and a sleeping bag and joined a crew of migrant justice activists driving south from Guelph to Leamington Ontario for…
More on Privilege:
A great (old, re-introduced) article by Rebecca Solnit is making the rounds of the interwebs lately. Nominally, it explains the phenomenon that has become known…
Science Explains Why POCA Patients Are So Nice and Why POCA Punks (mostly) Love Each Other
“While having money doesn’t necessarily make anybody anything,” Piff says, “the rich are way more likely to prioritize their own self-interest…
Class Cultures, POCA and Peter Deadman
After reflecting on Peter Deadman's recent comments about community and multibed acupuncture a bit, it became clear to me that once again we are looki…
Best Practice for WHO?
I debated whether to respond to these comments by Peter Deadman about community acupuncture. It seems like most of us in POCA have had this…
Secrecy vs. Transparency: A Community Acupuncture Response to Old Style Capitalism
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