Introduction: Beyond coercion and malign neglect: Black women and the struggle for birth justice / Julia Chinyere Oparah -- Section I: Birthing histories -- Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny midwife, " 1931-1956 / Darline Turner -- Regulating childbirth: Physicians and granny midwives in South Caroline / Alicia D Bonaparte -- Speak their names: The power of Sankofa to reclaim Black midwifery / Michelle L Drew -- Section II: 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 -- Section III: 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 -- Section IV: 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.
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