JOURNAL OF A BLACK QUEER NURSE | A Busboys and Poets Presentation
Date and Time
Jun 26, 2023 6:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Jun 26, 2023 6:00 pm
Brookland
Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much.
Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived.
Whether it is giving one’s own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one’s own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies as the morgues overflowed during the pandemic, Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.
Britney Daniels and Richard Fowler are joining us on the Busboys stage to share their experience in the healthcare field. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Daniels will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of JOURNAL OF A BLACK QUEER NURSE will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will NOT be livestreamed.
We ask that guests RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books
Britney Daniels, RN, MSN is a Black queer travel nurse and social advocate who has worked in hospital emergency rooms all over the US. Daniels holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in nursing leadership. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. Britney lives in Chicago with her wife, Saria, and their two dogs, Batman and Momo. This is her first book.
Richard Fowler is the nationally syndicated radio host of the The Richard Fowler Show, a Fox News Channel contributor, and democratic messaging and millennial engagement expert. Proudly progressive, Fowler is positioned at the intersection of news, politics, and the cultural issues facing everyday Americans. His fresh style and non-traditional spin on populism have taken audiences by storm and pushes all ages and demographics to ask more of themselves.
