Erica Chidi Cohen Instagram – pitched this to @ntytimes last summer because i was broken. broken by the statistics. broken by lack of care for us. broken by my countless conversations with black women about their fear of dying at the birth of their child.
but my brokenness also held strength. enough to reach out to my friend and @loomhq advisor @drericacahill to write something i couldn’t find anywhere: an actionable and compassionate tool that centered black pregnant women needs and mobilized care providers to directly acknowledge medical racism. this guide is not perfect but it’s a start and i hope more tools and research will flow from it.
the key to this guide are the antiracist prenatal and postpartum care preferences i conceptualized and then co-created with @drericacahill for @loomhq. we built them to hopefully lessen the burden for black women and build the groundwork these difficult but potentially life-saving conversations. the preferences are linked at the end of the guide and can be found at them at the link in the @loomhq bio.
thank you to: @lorettajross @artivistmonicaraye of @sistersong_woc for your groundbreaking reproductive justice work which anchored this guide and deeply informs my work at @loomhq and how we’re building our platform. to @resmaamenakem for his incredible book and somatic approach to racial trauma, your push to “operationalize” helped me build the framework for this guide. to @adjo_gold and @blackmamasmatter, for reading multiple drafts of this guide and providing incredible insights. you made this guide better. lastly, thank you @jessgrosewrites for accepting my pitch within five minutes of me sending it over last june, long before the world changed forever.
share this article and these preferences far and wide. feedback is welcome. we must come together to protect black birth, black women and black families. 🙏🏾✊🏾✌🏾#trustblackwomen #protectblackwomen | Posted on 23/Oct/2020 21:31:41
