The Petitions from Our Show:
- Urge Congress to Pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021: https://action.momsrising.org/sign/BMHC_Momnibus
- To Congress, CA Legislators & the CA Health Department: https://4kira4moms.com/petition/
MOMNIBUS ONE-SHEET from March of Dimes: https://www.marchofdimes.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/MOD_Momnibus_MOD_Logo_111422_vfinal.pdf
Black Maternal Health Resources & Advocacy
- Cordielle Street Memorial Fund
- Amber Rose Isaac – her partner created @savearose.foundation and has joined efforts to help start The Birthing Place (IG @birthingplacebx), an in-the-works birthing center in the Bronx; lots of advocacy resources on their IG LinkTree
- Sha’Asia Washington – #justiceforshaasia
- The City article about Sha’Asia that mentions all 3 of these women
- Every Mother Counts (nonprofit) – IG @everymomcounts
- U.S. House of Representatives Black Maternal Health Caucus – read about the Black Maternal Health MOMNIBUS Act
- CDC: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Continue in Pregnancy-Related Deaths
- Black Mamas Matter Alliance: a Black women-led alliance that centers Black people, advocates, drives research, builds power, and shifts culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.
- Mothering Justice: a grassroots policy and advocacy organization that provides mothers of color with the resources and tools to use their power to make equitable changes in policy.
- SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective: an organization that builds a network to improve institutional policies and systems that affect the reproductive lives of communities marginalized by systemic racism.
- National Birth Equity Collaborative: an organizational expert on the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of Black people, advocating to end the Black maternal health and infant mortality crises.
Preeclampsia Numbers in the U.S.
Birthing Center Efforts
- Brooklyn Birthing Center
- The Birthing Place (IG @birthingplacebx) – needs funds to start in the Bronx
- https://nurturenj.nj.gov/
BIPOC Doula Organizations
- Ancient Song Doula Services: Website / Give
- Ashé Birthing Services: Website / Give
- Oula: https://oulahealth.com/
- Sista Midwife Productions: https://www.sistamidwife.com/
Black Student Midwives Requesting Funding
- Tyla Leach: https://www.gofundme.com/f/make-tyla-a-midwife
- Efe Osaren: https://www.gofundme.com/f/DoulaChronicles
- Barbara Vernéus: https://www.gofundme.com/f/phase-3-midwifery-training
Books
- Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Killing The Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts
Influencers
- Ericka Hart, M.Ed (she/they) https://www.instagram.com/ihartericka/?hl=en
Anti-Racism Advocacy
- Antiracistalliance.com
- Center For The Study of White American Culture: https://cswac.org/
- White Awake: https://whiteawake.org/
- Dr Joy Degruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: https://www.joydegruy.com/
- Gail Golden’s work on White Privilege as an Addiction: http://www.goldenwrites.com/whiteprivilege.htm
- European Dissent Workshop (2nd Monday of the Month 6:30-8:30pm)
Contact: europeandissentnyc@gmail.com - (Book) “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your One Racism and How To Do Better” by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao: https://bookshop.org/p/books/white-women-everything-you-already-know-about-your-own-racism-and-how-to-do-better-regina-jackson/18229996
- (Book/workbook) My Grandmother”s Hands by Resmaa Menakem: https://www.resmaa.com/
- Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (Undoing Racism/Community Organizing Workshop): https://pisab.org/
Emotional Support:
- www.theemotionalinstitute.com
- Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond: https://pisab.org/
- The Rev. Jill Bowden (4thU Affiliate Minister): email: revjillbowden@4thU.org
- Rev. Lynn Bourbeau (Trauma Therapist & Interfaith Minister) email: lynnbourbeau@gmail.com
- Rev. Rhonda Akanke (Minister in the cast) email: Ramcleannur@yahoo.com
- Black Mamas Matter Alliance: a Black women-led alliance that centers Black people, advocates, drives research, builds power, and shifts culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.
- Mothering Justice: a grassroots policy and advocacy organization that provides mothers of color with the resources and tools to use their power to make equitable changes in policy.
- SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective: an organization that builds a network to improve institutional policies and systems that affect the reproductive lives of communities marginalized by systemic racism.
- National Birth Equity Collaborative: an organizational expert on the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of Black people, advocating to end the Black maternal health and infant mortality crises.
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