{"id":2905,"date":"2021-02-12T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/?page_id=2905"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:52:19","slug":"bupc-sjf-discussion-forum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/seminars\/sjf\/bupc-sjf-discussion-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"BUPC-SJF Discussion Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Summer- Fall 2020:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the 1st edition, the BUPC-SJF and the attendees assembled on a weekly basis to have an informal discussion about a topic pertaining to some form of social injustice. Each forum was led by a trainee who acted as the discussion leader for that session. The forum usually started with a short educational\/informational component followed by extensive discussion where attendees openly voiced their feelings and shared their experiences in a safe space devoid of judgements and power differentials. The goal of the forum was to welcome all opinions with an open mind and empower a space for students, faculty and staff of the BU Pulmonary Center dedicated to implementing DEI at the institutional level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Topics discussed at the BUPC-SJF Discussion Forum included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Why Black Lives Matter\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Systemic discrimination<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">How influencers and political rhetoric shape the concepts of racism in America; implications on BLM and politics moving forward<br \/>\nAAPI Allyship for BLM<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Inequality in STEM\/Academia Part 1: the scope of the problem<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Inequality in STEM\/Academia Part 2: How We Can Stop It<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Racial Inequality in Healthcare.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Being an International Trainee in the US<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Addressing Confederate Statues: What do they represent<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Why I read &#8220;IF&#8221; by Rudyard Kipling everyday<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Monetizing Racism\/Consuming Racism<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Recognizing Colorism<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Whose shoulders are we really standing on? Exploitation of Black bodies in science &amp; medicine<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Hispanic Heritage Month Segment Liberty and Justice for some; the truth about U.S. territories<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Inequalities in Voting<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Hiring Diversity<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Why Language Matters<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Reparations<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">URM: Who we are and why schools struggle to matriculate URM students every year; implications on our concepts of diversity in the workplace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer- Fall 2020: For the 1st edition, the BUPC-SJF and the attendees assembled on a weekly basis to have an informal discussion about a topic pertaining to some form of social injustice. Each forum was led by a trainee who acted as the discussion leader for that session. The forum usually started with a short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16527,"featured_media":0,"parent":2879,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2905\/revisions\/2906"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}