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  updated from November 18 2025 If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Especially for Black women.Especially in maternal health.   Black women have always understood the …

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Alright — let’s tell the truth with love and with fire. When people today look back at photos of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers — surrounded by eight, ten, twelve babies …

Printable PDF Women and girls are frequently sent the message that demanding accommodations for our health and safety are “selfish.” And, DEI is a sin, you know.   Meanwhile, there are …

Pain hurts in a way that words fail. Pain doesn’t announce itself politely.It arrives like weather—uninvited, undeniable, and immune to reason. Pain is a shadow you can’t outrun,a ghost that …

A handful of men hold the feast, while women and darker-skinned people are told to survive on crumbs. Why are we accepting this as normal? For too long, we’ve watched …

Health and healing are too sacred for this. We need nurses. Women — and girls — need nurses who see trauma for what it is. Nurses who recognize the histories …

For generations, conversations about women’s rights have been derailed by demands to prioritize men’s comfort, reputations, or emotional reactions. Whenever women raise issues that directly affect their bodies, safety, careers, …

These stories in the news around Black maternal health always hit home for me.  I have publicly shared my pregnancy ordeal and how horrible racism is in the medical community …

We cannot protect what we refuse to name. And we cannot save Black women’s lives while allowing the world to blur, dilute, or silence the very people most affected. These …