Black Midwifery & Championing Equity #057

Your BIRTH Partners

This time on the show, we'll be joined in conversation by Meredith Strayhorn of The Walking Stick Midwifery Care. Meredith been a huge inspiration and source of collaboration and insight in growing Your BIRTH Partners. As we've discussed over and over the last few years, I've been incredibly inspired by her journey as a birthworker, as she is growing and learning as a doula and now a student midwife. I'm excited for you to hear her story, understand what motivates her to keep going, how she's faced challenges that come up with us doing this really heart centered work through just unbelievably challenging times over the last few years.
In this episode we talk a lot about the systemic inequities that we see in our system, particularly the mounting racism-driven disparities and birth care. How do we challenge these as individual birth workers? How do we cope with the trauma that we face as we see poor birth care play out over and over and over? How do we encourage birthing people to find joy in their experience, despite these inequities?
Join us to learn more about:
~Cultural representation & creating health equity for Black birthing people
~Building up your community into a movement
~Black ancestral midwifery, safety, & connection
~Reconsidering how we define "care"
~False dichotomy of homebirth & hospital birth idealogy
~Coping with systemic inequities & racist health outcomes
~Ways to highlight the beauty and joy of Black birth
Learn more about Meredith & connect here!

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