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. 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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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:

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

As well as being heartbroken for the family of Jacob Blake, the @ACNMmidwives Caucus of Black Midwives for Reproductive Justice and Birth Equity are once again angered & anguished for the continued police violence against Black people & Black communities

thehill.com/homenews/state… as we move through another episode of state sanctioned police violence. We lift up meditations and prayers for healing and pour the offerings to our ancestors to aid in his recovery. We beg his physicians to see him as a victim, not a criminal suspect.

A rant about education: Non-Black “allies” in midwifery education, Quick chat. When you’re calling for a “study of the poor pass rates of Black graduates” on the @AMCBmidwife exam: please understand what you’re saying to the white institutions that make up “midwifery” education You’re not saying that the data is skewed by the lack of representation of Black graduates compared to the U.S. population therefore every unsuccessful candidate markedly drops the pass rate if you use “race” compared to white students & making it a flawed metric to begin with.

The Devil & @norman_c_wang is a whole lie. He & @American_Heart can kiss #BlackMedTwitter ass.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA… “As Fitzgerald envisioned, ‘We will have succeeded when we no longer think we require black doctors for black patients, chicano doctors for chicano patients, or gay doctors for gay patients, but rather good doctors for all patients.’”

I. Just. Can’t. Not. Today. Satan.

If you trying g to run up on me in these Internet streets talmbout “Birth Equity”, but you ain’t read the primers by Black femmes. I’m judging you.

Lets start with @ADBPhD Julia Chinyere Oparah

Birthing Justice | Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth taylorfrancis.com/books/97813156… Of course Auntie @DorothyERoberts Killing the Black Body is seminal. This is not a debate. I have the original copies I’ve had since grad school and give away copies regularly.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155575/k…

@ElsevierNurse why in the year of our Lord 2020 am I still reading racist assumptions by white nurses 2 of whom are Fellows of @AAN_Nursing about the pain perception of Black & Brown birthing people on Al Gore’s internet and in print? #NurseTwitter come get your girls. When I tell you Nursing Academia isn’t just complicity in white supremacy in healthcare but active offenders Exhibit A. This excerpt from Maternity Nursing being taught to thousands of nursing students in the U.S. and Canada today. If you’re a #nurseacademic teaching this shit...

Auntie’s going social media dark for 24 hours lovelies so here’s a little light reading from along with your reminder that per birth certificate data & workforce data from AMCB, Black folx make up 60% of the births attended by CNM/CM but only 6% of the workforce of CNM/CM Contact your legislator and encourage them to support the Momnibus Act of 2020 which includes the HR 6164 Perinatal Workforce Act sponsored by member of the @BMHCaucus @RepGwenMoore

Last night at 9:00p.m. I was contacted by a paid staff member of ACNM thinking to rebuke and censor me, a fully grown free Black woman for expressing my opinion as a voter in the United States of America, on legislation that I do not believe will significantly impact the health disparities of Black mothers in the United States as it offers no objective, measurable, required criteria to actually put money into the hands of Black student midwives or graduates seeking loan repayment

Most folx know how I feel about shady DMs. Why a Caucus of Black Midwives? That’s easy.

CM/CNM attend 1% of the births of white non-Latinx mamas. 52% of US birthing people

CM/CNM attend 8% of births of Black women 13% of birthing people

Thanks @RjWarrior for your #APHA talk So @ACNMmidwives literally attend the births of Black mamas 2:1 to our white counterparts. <10% CM/CNM are Black, probably 5% but we don’t know because it certifying body doesn’t report the demographics of the workforce in 2020 @acog knows the demographics of its workforce

Thank you all for your love and kindness. It is encouraging even as I am resolved and aware that I will lose my employment long before Ubuntu is close to being financially solvent as a source of billable healthcare and is now mostly a place of succor for the vulnerable families A place they can come to just know they are heard & loved. A place where they are empowered to be whole and well. A place of community. I am who I am because of the women in that community that loved, nurtured and raised me.