Tag: black women
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A Dark Truth: Baby Loss and Black Mothers
by Anisah Abdullah Baby Loss Awareness Week is now in its 19th year, and it provides an opportunity for us all to mark the lives of babies lost in pregnancy or soon after birth. Running between the 9th-15th October, this campaign allows dedicated time to put a spotlight on the needs of the individuals and families whose…
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Black British Women’s Experience of Maternal Healthcare Services: Why Black British Women Are Still Five Times More Likely To Die In Childbirth
On February 9th 2021, an urgent inquiry investigating alleged systemic racism within NHS maternity care services was launched with the support of Sandra Igwe, co-chair and founder of the Motherhood Group and UK charity, Birthrights (Summers, 2021); an investigation, a long-awaited investigation given women of colour have endured decades of drastically disproportionate health outcomes. Though…
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Black Women’s Bodies in Italy: an exercise of power and pleasure for Italian Patriarchy
Anti-blackness in the context of Black Women’s experiences in Italy. Over the last five years in Italy, a number of high profile cases of anti-blackness in the public arena has come to light with cases such as the first black minister Cécile Kygene being named an ‘orang-utan’ by Northern League senator, Roberto Calderoli, to the…
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