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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.
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.
That Black woman colleague? It me 🙋🏾. A THREAD. 1/
#BlackTechTwitter #TrustBlackWomen #BelieveBlackWomen #InvestInBlackWomen #PayBlackWomen #Reparations #BlackLivesMatter
#BlackTechTwitter #TrustBlackWomen #BelieveBlackWomen #InvestInBlackWomen #PayBlackWomen #Reparations #BlackLivesMatter
After ~6yrs of consistent & positive engagement with the community, organizations, & press on behalf of Google, I suddenly went dark just as I had achieved a significant milestone in my career: heading the DC office for @pinterest, leading federal policy for the company. 2/
What should have been a moment of pride and the beginning of a long journey achieving federal and social impact wins for the company, Pinners, and the communities it serves instead marked a period of glaringly unfair pay, intense discrimination, and terrifying retaliation. 3/
1/8 May we please direct your attention to the critical work being done by The Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund (MRFF)-
@fundMSabortions
msreprofreedomfund.org
#BlackWomenLead #ReproductiveJustice #TrustBlackWomen #FundAbortionBuildPower #TakeAction
@fundMSabortions
msreprofreedomfund.org
#BlackWomenLead #ReproductiveJustice #TrustBlackWomen #FundAbortionBuildPower #TakeAction
2/8 Here's an awesome interview with Laurie Bertram Roberts (@smartstatistic / feministuppityandblack.com / cash.me/Smartstatistic), Founder and Executive Director of MRFF: deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2017…
#activistcrush #BlackWomenLead
#activistcrush #BlackWomenLead
3/8 And here's a great recent article about the MRFF, and the reproductive justice work they are doing in their community.
thenation.com/article/laurie…
thenation.com/article/laurie…
