Abibifahodie and Mambo y’all.

So, after sitting onstage on a panel regarding the Black maternal health disparities, after calculating that I covered about 30 years of research on Black maternal health, after catching up on Nana Dr. Ani’s work,and after a conversation with my sis and committee member who is a midwife (Okuninibaa) I confirmed my suspicion that since the neanderthugs make up 70% of the medical workforce, there’s no changing it. (I know that’s a run on sentence.)

Our best bet is to opt out if we are able. Have these babies at the house surrounded by positive people and energy attended by Black midwives. Folks should become expert lay midwives having apprenticed with someone competent. Where we are not able, we should seek Black obstetricians. Of course we could move abroad and really establish autonomy in both realms of giving birth.

But yall already know this. As soon as I’m done editing my dissertation, I’m stating publicly, to hold myself accountable that I am going to create the course.