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@iamn0tthe1
Sep 12, 2020 • 13 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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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Jul 16, 2021
So I triggered folks yesterday with 2 tweets & as fragile white folks will they demanded to speak to the manager on my job. There’s 2 problems. 1: The manager don’t care what you think about what I say on Twitter cuz 2: I am the manager.

But for the record I said what I said. Image
So not only will I stand by my statements, I’ll explain Karen. The OBVIOUS point of the tweet was that it is absurd to apply causality to healthcare disparities to “race” because race is an artificial social grouping created by Europeans to justify slavery & colonization.
Not only is there no biological basis for race; in fact historically “whiteness” didn’t exist before the 17th century when European Christians had to morally reconcile the slaughter and subjugation of indigenous peoples and enslavement of Africans to build their “empires”.
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Jul 4, 2021
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
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Nov 23, 2020
Dear white midwives,
Nurse midwifery is the only modern American profession in the nation besides police which began with slave/Indian catcher patrols, whose existence is rooted in white supremacy: the control, elimination & replacement of the Black midwife with white nurses.
Whiteness was central to the planning, implementation, growth and marketing of the profession. This is not hyperbole this is fact. It still continues today. The 87% white workforce looks exactly like the 86% midwifery directors who determine who teaches & studies nurse midwifery.
CPMs are no more diverse and make up only a tenth of the midwifery profession. So to suggest @ACNMmidwives @MANAcommunity with their white leadership, white educators & white workforce can reduce mortality driven by 🤰🏾🤱🏽isn’t naive it’s white supremacy in action.
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Nov 18, 2020
Wrote a little poem. Bet y’all didn’t know I was an artist. Like to here it; here it goes.

Resilience Training is for White Folks

By Michelle “Auntie Chelle” Drew
Dear HR: about that mandatory Resiliency Training:

I’m a have to say nah.
Black women don’t need to learn resilience.
We invented it in the belly of slave ships
Perfected it when we watched our lovers and babies ripped from our arms and sold off the plantation never to be seen again.
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Sep 11, 2020
Now why in the nurse’s note about my new pregnant patient contain only one sentence about her pregnancy outcomes but a whole paragraph that she uses marijuana; was “incarcerated” instead of the fact that she has a condition approved for medical marijuana & needed cash bail? Z60.5
Thanks for all the supportive comments. A few points.

As health professionals our job isn’t to judge patients but to help. There are important things to ask, know, do if you’re really concerned about the health and safety of a pregnant person who discloses social information:
Do you need help?
What can I/we do to get you to a safe place?
Do you know where the resources are to get help/can I help you find them.
If it doesn’t contribute to the patient getting good care why write it in their permanent medical record? Save judgement for courts & Jesus
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Sep 11, 2020
Today’s tweets will be a series of Billable ICD10 codes you can use in the care of Black mamas and babies birthing and being born in today’s AmeriKKKa:

Z60.5 Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination and persecution.

i.e. Racism

I use it almost every day that I work.
Victim of bullying l-Z65.8

Can also be applied to Black femme health workers in the culture of systemic and institutional racism that burns us out at unprecedented rates
Unstable housing, couch surfing, living in hotels, shelters

Z59.0 Homelessness or housing unstable
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