thinking of this post on doulas and certifications
i think that learning all that you can about reproductive health and justice, pregnancy, birth, post partum care, breast feeding, conception, abortion, miscarriage, newborns, infants, and children, and so much more is vital to being a responsible birth worker.
i studied reproductive health and justice in a myriad of [...]
Archive for the ‘midwives of color’ Category
2 Jun
doulas and certifications
12 Dec
crossing borders
honestly i am not sure how to respond to this article from september 2008.
my honest response is post-despair. as in after you have accepted that the world is fucked up. and that the masters are determined to win. and you are only one person, then what? i am sure i am not the only person [...]
7 Dec
a balancing act
BEFORE
i am not a primitivist. i do not romanticize the past simply because it was before now. i do not believe in some edenic before when all went perfectly. but i do have to ask the question: how the fuck did the human race propagate itself before doctors, obgyns, or certified licensed and insured midwives?
let [...]
30 Nov
currently diggin
blogs and websites i am currently diggin. check them out.
quirky black girls: i am one of the contributers for this blog. and i am proud of it. it is part of the quirky black girl movement taking over the internet.
birthing project usa: the underground railroad for new life: a friend just hipped me to this [...]
21 Oct
incite! conference
if you want to read about some of my insights from the incite! conference a couple of weeks ago…check out this link
9 Jul
history of black midwives
so this little article comes from the site of international center for the tradition of childbirththe black midwives site. i wish that there was an unbroken tradition of rituals as is described in the first paragraph, but our traditions our history are broken. i see the acts of colonization genocide enslavement as the breaking of [...]
