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Black Women
Birthing Justice
#LIBERATE BLACK BIRTH
Our Goal:
To ensure that all progressive movements
understand and support birth justice.
NOW AVAILABLE:
Battling Over Birth Paperback Editions
We are delighted to announce that Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health-Care Crisis is now available in Kindle and paperback editions. The report is published by Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health. Praeclarus is a small independent press that specializes in low cost books on women's health. A portion of all of their sales go to worthy organizations that support women and children in the U.S. and abroad.
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What People Are Saying About Battling Over Birth
From DONA International:
"This book clearly lays out the barriers facing Black families, but it also offers solutions. I think every professional who works with parents and babies of any color should read this book."
—Sharon Muza, BS, CD(DONA), BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, CLE
Click Here to Read the Review
"Battling Over Birth: Black Women
and the Maternal Health Care Crisis reveals hard truths—
powerful findings on the role of racism, coercion,
inadequate prenatal care, the pressures undermining
breastfeeding, and the lack of access to alternatives to a
broken maternal healthcare system as the key threads of
Black women’s birth experiences."
--Kimberly Seals Allers, MS, is an award-winning journalist, author, and an
internationally recognized speaker, consultant, and advocate for maternal
and infant health.
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Our Mission
BWBJ is a grass-roots collective out of Oakland, CA. We identify as Black women and individuals across the African Diaspora and are committed to transforming birthing experiences for Black women and birthing people. Our vision is that every pregnant person has an empowering birth and postpartum experience, free of unnecessary medical interventions and forced separation from their child, one that honors their autonomy and maintains dignity. We aim to educate and inform, to document and share Black women and individuals’ birth stories in their own words, to raise awareness, influence healthcare policy, and keep birth sacred. We challenge human rights violations, including maternal mortality and near misses, and rebuild confidence in our Black and Brown community’s ability to birth.
