From Medic Wiki

Gobblehook is the family name of the Displaced Persons, as mispronounced by Mrs. Shortley in Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Displaced Person."

Contents 1 Ms. Gobblehook's biography 2 I am working on 2.1 To do 3 Native speaker 4 References:

[edit] Ms. Gobblehook's biography

I am a health worker^[1][2] and adult educator from Louisiana. I am a disabled, queer, German-american woman, and a survivor of multiple violent house raids, 11 hours of police torture, street life, and the violent aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am in recovery from drug addiction.

I have taught community-based health work classes to student, neighborhood, church, and issues-based groups; and have spoken on power disparities and health outcomes at the 24th and 25th annual reproductive rights conferences hosted by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire College.

I co-founded (with South African freedom fighter^[3][4][5] Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo) an organization through which I consult with health and community-based groups to promote approaches to health work that strengthen the fabric of the community.

As a StreetMedic, I have provided first aid support at fourteen political actions over the last six years, including union picket lines, the 2002 protests against the World Economic Forum in NYC, the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. and the 2006 Great Flood Commemoration March in New Orleans.

I ran an underground free health post in my inner-city neighborhood from 2003-2004, and I assist in the development of a free integrative family medicine center which was founded by street medics and my neighborhood in September 2005.

Service work, including this wiki, is how I repair the damage of the violence done to me, my family, and my community.

[edit] I am working on

| Training outlines | How to take care of a sick person | Living well with diabetes | Infected wounds | Stay healthy so you can stay in the streets

[edit] To do

Edit

| Affinity group medic | 2005-2006 Common Ground Health Clinic - LA | Injury aftercare

/Create

/links

/tohelp

[edit] Native speaker

[edit] References:

1. ↑ Where There is No Doctor
2. ↑ Barefoot doctors
3. ↑ Black People's Convention
4. ↑ Azanian People's Organisation
5. ↑ Black Consciousness Movement