Thread by @iamn0tthe1

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! 🙇🏾‍♀️

ugapress.org/book/978082035…

Also she’s a magnificent listen so check out some of her lectures on the YouTube.

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/