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G.Sobier
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Moving through life doing the best I can.

🎸Music Fiend🎙I🏕Adventurer I 📽Film Lover I 🌯🌮Food Obsessed I 📸 Novice Photographer 📷 I 📖📚Bookworm I Activist✊🏽 I 🇲🇽 Latina I 🍉🇵🇸 Free Palestine
Me all day, every day.

F*ck that orange menace, cowardly Donald. The megalomaniac chief.

We the people stand with our allies, we stand with #VolodymyrZelenskyy
March 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Key Thing: The Take Away

Now more than ever women’s rights as we’ve seen hangs in a balance.

Now more than ever we need to discuss this in relation to all healthcare, especially healthcare for POC women.

Even more so for Black women who are the most marginalized.

Advocate. Use Your Voice.
February 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
And that is what is eloquently shown in this episode of #AllAmericanHomecoming

Even more so when Keisha gives her own experience of when her mother was seeking help during her battle with cancer. She hits home how they had to advocate, & continue to, just to be seen.

Key Thing: POC Health Matters
February 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I was very lucky to have a team to help me, including my ex father in-law who’s a doctor. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case for everyone.

The percentage of POC women of a certain economic bracket to not be heard by their physicians when discussing health care concerns are even higher(cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Key Thing: If One Doctor Doesn’t Listen Find One Who Will

I was lucky enough to find not only a new primary care doctor who listened, but also a specialty doctor in OB who was willing to do as many tests, scans, and whatever it took to get to the root of what was going on within my body. (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I had my now ex-husband go in with me to my next appointment so that he could see firsthand what I was experiencing.

After witnessing the complete disregard of my concerns, we chose to seek a different doctor, as well as other specialists. (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
that it wasn’t much too concerning for tests. And it’s more than likely due to weight gain, and once I lost weight I’d be fine.

Key Thing: Be Your Own Advocate

I definitely didn’t like being dismissed, as if what my body was trying to tell me didn’t really matter.

After much discussion I (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Many POC women can go through unnecessary pain all because they weren’t listened to. That was definitely the case for me.

For months I couldn’t understand why I was in the amount of pain I was in. Or why my body was acting differently, & any time I discussed this with the doctor I was told (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is sadly a common thing that happens to POC women, especially Black women. We aren’t heard when we need to be. Especially, when it comes to matters of health. (cont.)

Key Thing: We Need to Be Heard
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Much like the doctor who Simone went to was telling her. He dismissed her concerns, downplaying them because she has the appearance of looking healthy. Simone had to demand to have tests done.

Whereas, I had to bring in my white ex-husband, so that I could be heard by my doctor. (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
When I was watching the episode I kept thinking of my own journey. I kept telling my primary care doctor at that time how my body wasn’t feeling right, & the amount of pain that I was in.

Key thing: We Know Our Bodies.

Yet, my doctor completely dismissed what I said to her. (cont.)
February 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Rewatched Season 3 of All American: Homecoming. I want to particularly highlight a topic that doesn’t get discussed enough, one that is very personal to me because of my own journey with it, & that is the discussion of how POC women are treated when they are advocating for their own health. (Cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My journey.

Thank you #MoAmer for this brilliantly resilient show.
February 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
of what I would give to have those memory cards back. Not so much the camera itself, which would be nice, but just those memory cards. Those tiny little disks with all the precious photos of times with my family. With friends. With my Pop. Those moments in time of my continuing history.(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I felt Mo’s pain in that moment. Him regaining something so precious. So irreplaceable. So beautiful. Something that he thought he lost, to then only have to silently watch it be destroyed before your eyes, that’s a level of strength that really brought me to tears. It reminded me(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
where Mo and his family are flying back, without giving too much away, that particular scene hit me even harder. For this reason, when I was going through my divorce my camera with all my memory cards was stolen for my car. I was gutted.(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
got to me in a big bad way. It brought up my own feelings of missing my father and nostalgic for those moments of joy with him & my family, laughing, dancing, watching him play his guitar. But it’s only later toward the end of the episode that it really hits home. And this comes when a moment(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
That scene and at later scene really got me in my feels for so many reasons, but particularly because I too lost my father, which was one of the hardest losses I’ve ever had to face. So, seeing Mo come alive in the moments of watching his family, particularly his father in moments of pure joy(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Rewatched the second season of #MoNetflix and I can’t express fully how much I love it, & what it means to me. I think everyone should watch it’s brilliance and resilience.

There’s one thing in particular I’d like to highlight & that is a particular scene involving watching old home movies(cont.)
February 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Took this photo at the #electrickblocks in Portland I think two years ago. Had to pull it back up from my archives in tribute to #KendrickLamar performance at the half time show.

The artist who painted it is #lordtheydrift.
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Just finished the last season of #CobraKai and it made me so nostalgic for the times when I would watch the original Karate Kid films, including the fourth film with my Pop. It definitely brought back the comforts of home, of family, and brought tears to my eyes in the best ways. Loved it so much.
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