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Black people experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth.
In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, a nationally-recognized observance week which happens April 11 - April 17, 2022, the National Network of the Libraries of Medicine, cosponsored by Regions 1, 2, 3, 7 and All of Us, with a Black Birth Worker and her client.
Join us to learn:
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What is a Black Birth worker?
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What are the experiences of Black Birth Workers and their clients?
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How can working with a birth worker as a compliment to hospital medicine or care?
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How is community medicine tied to social justice and equity?
Recommended audience:
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Library Workers
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Public Health Workers
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Health Professionals (Nurses, Medical Students, Family Medicine, OBGYN)
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People considering using a Birth Worker
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Those interested in alternatives to traditional hospital services
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Those interested in maternal health, especially Black Maternal Health
Tay Amari Little (She/Her+He/Him) is a Conjurewoman, Baby Retriever and esoteric birthworker, diviner and artist at (Un)Veiled Divine Technologies. She offers a variety of birthkeeping services including arsenals for both pregnant people and those who are seeking to be. Arsenals also include monthly check-up appointments with the Unborn babies and reporting back, prescriptions, on-call retrieval services, and performing rituals and other processes requested by respective Ancestors and spirits involved for a successful duration. (Un)Veiled Divine Technologies’ birthwork practice centers Black trans, queer, and gender-expansive birthgivers, and then also allows space for non-Black clients of color.