Self Care Episode 9: WE ARE CONNECTED

The Taproot Doula Project

WE ARE ALL CONNECTED. Is white midwifery/birth community racist? HOW DOES IT AFFECT US? (A brief message addressing recent events in the local and national birth community ... Read more at https://taprootdoula.com/2017/04/24/wake-up-white-birth-community-black-women-and-babies-are-dying/) Black women and babies are dying at epidemic rates. What does it have to do with us? The same forces that hurt black moms and babies also hurt us, in more subtle ways. Our healing cannot happen individually ... it is dependent on the healing of EVERYONE in our community. Black women are the canaries in the coal mine ... we are all breathing in the poison, but they are the ones who stop singing first. BE BRAVE, GET UNCOMFORTABLE. LOVE YOUR COMMUNITY. HEAL YOURSELF.