Was asked to share & update the list of titles that I gifted the incoming interns (who by the way for the record resented the gift and hated me) back in 2019. I still stand by this being an essential reading list for white OBGYN residents who match into Black serving programs.
In no particular order:
The following from Professor Mother @DorothyERoberts
Killing the Black Body
Fatal Invention
Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge (With @JonathanMetzl)
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/struct…
By @haw95 Harriet Washington
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Medical Bondage
Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by @drcooperowens
I Stan Queen! 🙇🏾♀️
Also she’s a magnificent listen so check out some of her lectures on the YouTube.ugapress.org/book/978082035…
Reproductive Injustice
Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
by another Sister on the struggle: @drdanaaindavis
nyupress.org/9781479853571/…
Birthing Justice:
Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth,
edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah
and @ADBPhD amazon.com/Birthing-Justi…
To Prevent Women from Dying in Childbirth, First Stop Blaming Them
in Scientific American by my true Soul Sister like we were separated at birth 😍😍 @mclemoremr scientificamerican.com/article/to-pre…
Black Lives Matter: Claiming a Space for Evidence-Based Outrage in Obstetrics and Gynecology by @KemiDoll et al ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…
Reproducing Race
An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization by Khiara Bridges
ucpress.edu/book/978052026…
Before you send another urine drug screen before talking to your Black pregnant client please read Policing the Womb
Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by @michelebgoodwin
Before you start claiming your white selves as experts in go past the Wikipedia & read:
Reproductive Justice: An Introduction
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
Radical Reproductive Justice all by Mother @LorettaJRoss & colleagues
To understand the harm you are doing to actual Black pregnant people BUY Thick and Other Essays on Audible by @tressiemcphd & listen to Dying to Be Competent & read I Was Pregnant & in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman
time.com/5494404/tressi…
Many things by Sister Friend @doccrearperry including Respectful Maternity Care: Shifting Medical Education And Practice Toward An Anti-Racist Framework healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hb…
By Baby Sisters @doczo1 @IVAPhD @doyinspeaks et. al. Black Women Scholars & the Research Working Group of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Black Maternal Health Research Re-Envisioned: Best Practices for the Conduct of Research With, For & By Black Mamas harvardlpr.com/wp-content/upl…
By Sister Dr. @RJEpiOBWarrior also with Sister Dr. @mclemoremr
The Ethics of Perinatal Care for Black Women: Dismantling the Structural Racism in "Mother Blame" Narratives
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31021935/
Speaking of diversity in the workforce it’s hard to do that when program directors are disproportionately old white men committed to maintaining the status quo.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
What is our responsibility especially those of us not from the marginalized communities upon whom medical education is weaponized to protect Black birthing people?
The Role of OBGYNS in Advancing Perinatal Justice & Accountability with @RJEpiOBWarrior
This article by @drtaylor09 is a PRIMER on misogynoir in reproductive health. It definitely gets added to the next gift baskets
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
A critical look at the social implications of anti-abortion legislation: “The desire to control Black bodies & Black liberation is a function of white supremacy & it permeates every strategy & goal-even for well-meaning reproductive freedom advocates.”
rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2021/0…
Before you document document a verbal report of marijuana use in an OB visit that months large triggers a CPS call, read Torn Apart by our Spirit Auntie @DorothyERoberts to help you think critically about your role as a “mandatory reporter” & how you document about Black parents
Think you don’t see color when prescribing for minoritized postpartum clients? Think again.
liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/he…
This whole thread by @RJEpiOBWarrior is a primer of how to culturally center Black pregnant people in perinatal care.
Also; we need to talk about Black women and abortion. Here’s a start.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
🛑 saying that being Black or Asian is a risk factor for cesarean. Read this article by @Ijeoma_MD and consider if it’s really that being white when you walk into a perinatal setting ruled by white supremacy is protective against cesarean. #RacismNotRace
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month this article which reminds us of the impact Obstetric Racism isn’t with pregnant people alone but has multigenerational impact. I was a 35 week preemie. My good sis @mclemoremr was a preemie too.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Gonna say it again & keep saying it until folks stop asking us to cite our sources: Gynecology & infectious disease as disciplines were the foundations of Plantation. They gained in importance when the importation of enslaved Africans was banned in 1808 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Will add on some evidence based research later but this tweetorial by @acweyand is absolutely instructional.
Despite advances in treatment disparities in death rates from Breast Cancer have widened in the past 20 years of surveillance and mortality rates decreased at greater rates that Black, Latinx and indigenous people compared to their white counterparts.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
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