Community care involves support for BlPOC birthing bodies and their babies. PERIODT. Full Spectrum Doula and Founder of Kismet Doula Services, Olivia Samples, and I talk about what it means to support birthing bodies outside of a white CIShet framework. Olivia does it all when it comes to birthing; from reproductive support all the way to making nutritional meals for her clients postpartum. If children are our future then making sure there are well-rounded support systems for the folx that birth them is vital.
Olivia is planning to support 5 families this year at no cost to the. Please support their mission by donating to their GoFundMe.
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
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