bug lover and general menace to society

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I just felt these tags were too important not to add @blacksasuke

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard “Black people don’t need sunscreen because they don’t burn.”


Raise your other hand if you were today years old when you found out that not only is that not true, but Black people are more likely than white people to die of skin cancer, because they’re told they don’t need to take precautions, sunburn doesn’t visually appear as quickly on Black skin even as the damage is being done, and then doctors aren’t taught what skin cancer looks like on Black people so by the time they catch it, it’s too fucking late.

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I’ve been singing that song for a while tbh. It’s amazing how many times I’ve brought up sunscreen or skin screenings with a dermatologist, and women I know don’t realize they also could develop sun cancer.

If you’re reading this and you’re black, please I am begging you look up what melanoma and the other skin cancers look like on darker skin. It’s on the internet, it’s a quick google search, please do it now while it’s in your mind.

And once you’ve done that give yourself a full body check-over. Remember to include around your eyes, the back of your neck, and the part in your hair. Also! Please make an appointment with a dermatologist in your area (check reviews online to find one who is comfortable checking you) and go see them.

Skin cancer is very treatable if it’s caught early. However it can be very serious and often deadly if it isn’t. Take! This! Seriously! If you’re black you still have skin, and you can still get skin cancer! You really do owe it to yourself to know what to look for, and to check yourself on a monthly basis. It could genuinely be the difference between life and death. 

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[ID: The first image is a screenshot from Twitter. The first user, Antoine @AJohnsonHist, says “The chiropractor really told me that because I’m Black, my bones are naturally denser than other ‘races’. When I asked what he based that off of, things got awkward lol. Needless to say I’m getting a new chiropractor.”

AmandaBeth @AFon789 replies, “I had a pharmacist (which requires a doctorate) tell me black people have an extra muscle in their calves which is why their such good athletes. When I told him that’s not true he looked at me like I was crazy.”

The second image shows a series of tags by user @blacksasuke reading “#same thing had a midwife on twitter who had a mentor tell her that black skin is ‘thicker’ so you have to jab us harder with needles #when we say white supremacy and systemic oppression this is what we mean #false white notions of black bodies are held as fact and readily taught and parroted by medical students who then #use it in their practice and it is dangerous and costs lives #like thats the systemic part. thats the supremacy (of white reality as fact) #like is it clicking?”

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