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Flat White

What’s woke this week?

24 July 2020

3:31 PM

24 July 2020

3:31 PM

Racism has remained the backbone of wokedom this past week with stories from the unlikely realms of sleep and K-Pop. Not to be outdone, though, the word police want to rewrite history by removing the use of eponyms in medicine. If you’re finding it hard to keep up with the multifarious aspects of decolonization then read on. 

To sleep, perchance to dream

If you think of sleep as an uncontroversial naturally occurring state of rest for mind and body, then that well-known authority on medicine and science, Teen Vogue, has news for you.  Turns out, in America at least, it’s just another arm of racist oppression of Black...

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