Epistemic Injustice

Abstract

See the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zLM_hIw7Y. The event was honoring the World Art Day, 15 April (2012) in Sweden. 2 Reminiscent of 19 th century blackface minstrel shows, this cake depicts dark black body with white eyes, disproportionately large open mouth, large white teeth framed by blood red lips. 3 The event was to celebrate the Swedish Art Day: 7 th April. 4 National Afro-Swedish Association (Afrosvenskarnas riksförbund). A Brussels-based antiracism group has condemned Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth for cutting a at the head on the cake "Your life will be better after this" 5. After initially stating his intent was to provoke and highlight the horror of FGM, the artist later clarified that his piece was a social commentary on how FGM is viewed through Western perspectives 6. This explanation, however, did not satisfy his critics some of whom found him unauthorized to speak for African Women. Ebony Magazine's News and Lifestyle editor, Jamilah Lemieux, summed up this sentiment: Far too often, Black men and White women feel emboldened to speak to or on issues regarding Black women from a place of authority that does not actually exist. And while they may have seen their attempts as helpful, the old cliché holds true: the road to hell is paved with good intentions 7 This video and the subsequent reaction capture the terms, volatile emotions, polarization and globalization of the subject of female genital cutting. This millennia 8 old cultural practice in diverse countries in Africa and the Middle East has in the past three decades taken global import and the accusations of oppressive patriarchy and of neocolonial racism remain central talking-points in the debate. The term female genital mutilation (FGM) was coined by Western activist, author and feminist Fran Hosken. In The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females (1979), Hosken mapped out the practice in Africa for the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, it has also been reported in parts of Asia and Arabian Peninsula (Shell-Duncan and Hernlund, 2000). Hosken and other feminists argued for eradicating FGM which, they pointed out, "racist" cake at a Stockholm art museum, demanding the government issue a formal public apology.

Epistemic justice and injustice among youth with mental health concerns

“…Indeed, (Ashcroft et al, 2021) found that patients accessing care for depression and anxiety felt the need to adopt “medical jargon” (p. 1176) in order to gain the respect of providers. Underlying these social dynamics is a collective consensus around who “controls the perception of what counts as a problem in the first place?” and “it is often not the patient—especially if they have low social capital” (Narruhn & Clark, 2020, p. 89). Indeed, these taken‐for‐granted dynamics that epistemically mediate these relations are systemic in nature, embedded within healthcare systems, and not just existing in individual cases (Kidd & Carel, 2017).…”