Birthing justice: Black women, pregnancy, and childbirth

Introduction. Beyond coercion and malign neglect : Black women and the struggle for birth justice / Julia Chinyere Oparah

Birthing histories. Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner : "granny midwife," 1931-1956 / Darline Turner

Regulating childbirth : physicians and granny midwives in South Carolina / Alicia D. Bonaparte

Speak their names : the power of Sankofa to reclaim Black midwifery / Michelle L. Drew

Beyond medical versus natural : redefining birth injustice. An abolitionist mama speaks : on natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna

Mothering : a post-C-section / Jacinda Townsend

Confessions of a Black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware

Reframing breastfeeding as critical to Black maternal and infant health / Kimberly Seals Allers

Birth justice and population control / Loretta J. Ross

Beyond silence and stigma : pregnancy and HIV for Black women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy

What I carry : a story of love and loss / Iris Jacob

Sheltering in community : reimagining Black birth during the COVID-19 pandemic / Jennifer Elyse James, Alexus Roane, and Julia Chinyere Oparah

Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt / The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project

Changing lives, one birth at a time. This is how we fight! : Finding my power and protecting the peace of Black mothers in a pandemic / Tanefer L. Camara

Birthing sexual freedom and healing : a survivor-mother's story / Biany Pérez

Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez

Sister midwife : nurturing and reflecting Black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne

WAJAMAMA : transforming childbirth in Zanzibar through holistic midwifery care / Nafisa Jiddawi

A love letter to my daughter : love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole

New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valérie Déus

I am my hermana's keeper : reclaiming Afro-Indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodríguez-Solomon

The first cut is the deepest : a mother-daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann Mckenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Taking back our power : organizing for birth justice. Unexpected allies : obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the Birth Justice Movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah

Becoming an outside-within : Jennie Joseph's activism in Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph

Embodied abolition : prisons, pregnancy, and the struggle for birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah

Lifting up Black doulas : Black women organizing to reimagine birthwork / Linda Jones, Sayida Peprah-Wilson, and Monica R. Mclemore

Black mamas matter : how black women built a global movement for Black maternal health, rights, and justice / Elizabeth Dawes Gay

Expanding a transnational movement for sexual and reproductive wellbeing / Joia Crear-Perry, Ana Paula Barreto, Kelly Davis, and Aja Clark.