Birthing While Black
Trekking the politics of race and religion towards the hospital birth of my daughter
Being black isn’t just about being singled out for a particular fate, it’s about a disproportionate chance that you will suffer a particular fate.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
— Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Homebody
She wanted a home birth. Like how grandma n’em used to do in the olden days — doulas and midwives that come to your house to help you deliver. It took some convincing but I was won over. For me, a hospital birth was the…
