The Problem

Beginning Fall 2020, in the midst of COVID-19, record-setting fires, and uprisings in support of Black life, The Bigger Picture Project expanded its focus beyond Type 2 Diabetes to address the myriad ways structural violence manifests to disproportionately impact the health of marginalized communities. We recognize the conditions that allow Type 2 Diabetes to ravage our communities are also the same conditions that make us most vulnerable to pandemics, climate change, police violence, and other ways structural violence manifest. We also know that these conditions are interrelated. For example, having Type 2 Diabetes raises COVID mortality rates by 2-3 times. These conditions are entirely preventable because they are the result of environments built centering racism and classism instead of equity and collective welfare. Join us in using your voice as an instrument of change to help protect the health of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Pacific Islander, and working class communities most targeted by structural violence. Join us in shifting the conversation, in connecting the dots, in making the bigger picture even bigger.