Books/articles that should be required reading for antiracism in MCH
Policing the Womb @michelebgoodwin
Medical Apartheid @haw95
Killing the Black Body & Fatal Invention by @DorothyERoberts
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender & the Origins of American Gynecology @drcooperowens
Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism by @keishagoode8 or as I call it: Killing Me Softly Part 2.
A primer on the lived experience of Black birth workers in PWIs
academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Follow the work of National Advocates for Pregnant People @NAPW (it’s really “women” but they get me.
nationaladvocatesforpregnantwomen.org
Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis by Chinyere Oparah, Linda Jones, Dantia Hudson, Talita Oseguera and Helen Arega
@BirthingJustice.
Check out the executive summary here: drive.google.com/file/d/0B_8112…
Then by the damn book!
This article by @tressiemcphd gutted me, made me a little ashamed to be a nurse in MCH and made me convinced to be silent was to be complicit. now I Stan: I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman.
time.com/5494404/tressi…
Also. While you’re at it. By #ThickandOtherEssays and pay a Black woman for her labor. @tressiemcphd is the voice you may not want to listen but that you need to hear right now. And don’t buy it from Jeff Bezos. Shop local. Preferably a Black Owned Shop
bookshop.org/books?keywords…
Birthing Justice:
Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth,
edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah
and @ADBPhD with contributions from folks like Mother @Shafia_SMC more beautiful work from @BirthingJustice 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
The part where being white is protective against having a cesarean delivery when seeking care at an academic medical center...
…pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
In case you want to say that’s a one off...
Unequal Motherhood: Racial-Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cesarean Sections in the United States
pqcnc-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/sivbIIIdoc/PQC…
@mi_niles @RJEpiOBWarrior @IVAPhD @mclemoremr @doczo1 @audreylyndon @doccrearperry @Arrianna_Planey Tried to tell y’all. #RespectBlackWomen
liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/he…
Syndemic Perspectives to Guide Black Maternal Health Research and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32696248/
In Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge @DorothyERoberts @JonathanMetzl discuss how white supremacy has been interwoven into medical education and medical practice.
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/struct…
Because insuring that BIPOC people capable have the right to choose when, where, how, or even if we want to bear children & access to the means to do so is pivotal to Reproductive Justice; badgering poor BIPOC to accept LARC & sterilization is Eugenics.
guttmacher.org/gpr/2014/09/gu…
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