GP063: Health Justice Series with Stephanie Lurch

This episode we welcome back Steph Lurch to talk about her recent 30 day Health Justice Series, that has been taking place across several of her accounts. If you liked this conversation, head to www.linkedin.com/in/slurch to check out the rest of the content. You can find out more about Steph Lurch here: Website: bio.site/stephlurch TikTok: medicine.needs.medicine Art Work as part of the Health Justice Series: Charmaine Lurch at clurch.com Bio: Stephanie Lurch (BScPT, MEd, Doctoral student) is a physiotherapist, educator, and health justice scholar with more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of healthcare, education, and equity. As a practicing pediatric clinician and Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University, she designs and leads transformative graduate-level curriculum that weaves together systems thinking, relational care, and the arts to reshape how future clinicians understand their role in health and healing. Her insights don’t just teach. They move. Grounded in lived experience, Stephanie speaks directly to those who’ve felt excluded from care or disconnected from the systems meant to support them. Raised in a working-class immigrant household and shaped by global work across three continents, from Cirque du Soleil to travelling with a paraplegic ultra-marathoner in New Zealand, she brings stories, metaphor, and bold insights to ignite reflection and collective action. Whether you’sre a healthcare provider, educator, learner, or leader, Stephanie’s work invites you to step into your power and reimagine what’s possible. She has spoken at international conferences, taught over 3000 graduate students, mentored thought leaders, and authored publications that are love letters to those who’ve ever felt like they don’t belong. Academic Resources Referenced in the Episode What Action Can Look Like… Clover, Darlene & Hill, Lilian. (2003). Learning patterns of landscape and life. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. 2003. 89 – 95. 10.1002/ace.113. On racism being the longest standing instrument of social domination… Quijano, A. (2000). Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America. Nepantla, 1(3), 533–580. The fundamental goals of oppression is to profit… Melamed, J. (2015). Racial capitalism. Critical Ethnic Studies, 1(1), 76–85.) Perkins, M. V., & Phelps, C. L. (2000). Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties. University Press of Mississippi. ProQuest Ebook. Central. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcmu/detail.action?docID=866925)