Great statement out from aims.org.uk on maternity care. It's not about giving birth this way or that way, it's about appropriate care with physiology at the centre. They say it better 👇 AIMS is calling for physiology-informed maternity services.. 1/

Bixby members Monica Hahn MD MPH AAHIVS (ig/bsky: MonicaHahnMD) and Nicholas Rubashkin wrote pieces for the AMA Journal of Ethics issue Toward Abolition Medicine bixbycenter.ucsf.edu/news/toward-ab…

My name is Michele Rayner. For the past two years, I was Ron DeSantis' biggest nightmare in the Florida legislature. Now, I am running to be the first openly queer Black woman in Congress. Help me amplify my message by retweeting and following today.

How do we make sure that flags of countries where my people live show up here as well 🇮🇳? I love @NormalBirthConf & don't want my my people from global south to miss out. #Midwives from India, Malawi, Mexico, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kenya. We want to be there too! 🤗

"I like to think big and bold and broadly about this work and the ways that it can be connected. So everything I do is very intentional. I deeply feel the urgency. It’s a matter of life and death." – Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, UMN School of Public Health Associate Professor nytimes.com/2022/04/25/hea…

Excellent piece out in The Lancet situating #ObstetricViolence within settler-colonialism, chattel slavery, eugenics, criminalization of abortion, and the logics of the carceral state. As the authors note, #ReproJustice is the way forward. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Listen up! Tue. 6/28, 11a-12:30p PT: #GivingVoiceToMothers #Report launch webinar, amplifying voices of 2.7k #BirthingPeople, & panel disc. mod. by Nzinga Blake, + Tatyana Ali Jennie Joseph Chandra Adams, MD Nicholas Rubashkin & Mimi Niles, Midwife, PhD, MPH 🙌🏾 Register (free!) → birthplacelab.org/voices/

Thx Los Angeles Times for amplifying! This study confirms what birthing people— esp. Black, Brown, & Indigenous— already know: the perinatal care they receive is not caring. 📰 Article → latimes.com/science/story/… 🔎 Study → onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bi… 💻 Webinar → birthplacelab.org/voices

Dear #obgyn #midwife and #nurse colleagues, understand that bodily autonomy & a person’s sovereignty also needs to affirmed and protected in birth because some of y’all don’t understand the absolute nature of human rights @rachelglogan @doczo1 @mclemoremr doi.org/10.1111/birt.1…

Black pregnant people 2x as likely to be coerced into procedures + undergo them without consent. Study reveals racist human rights violations in US perinatal + birth care. 🖊@rachelglogan @mclemoremr @doczo1 @Nisha_Malhotra, K Stoll, S Vedam Birth Place Lab bit.ly/39Uws4O

#GivingVoice Nicholas Rubashkin on #ObstetricViolence "there is enough evidence globally that this happens to women around the world. There are now new avenues for the monitoring of #ObstetricViolence because it is a form of discrimination happening to women around the world"

#GivingVoice "all we are looking for is to be treated with respect, to receive dignified care and for our care needs to be met. It's not that much to ask." Powerful words by Jennie Joseph

"I wasn't heard. I wasn't respected. I sat on my doctor's table and I just cried..'' #AftershockDoc confronts Black Maternal health crisis -out Hulu by Tonya Lewis Lee Paula Eiselt & GVTM report finds ample evidence Birth Place Lab @UBCmedicine @mclemoremr abc7news.com/hulu-aftershoc…

New publication 📣 Here's a gem that we poured our hearts & soul into. The next game changer in #ObstetricViolence research. With Rodante van der Waal Feminist Noire 🤍 | Anna Horn (She/Her) @DrRChadwick Feminist Anthropology Journal 🌟Trigger warning🌟 Please read & share. 🙏🏽 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

Appreciate this excellent reporting from Layla Jones. Learned about the role of Philadelphia in the racist foundations of US Ob/Gyn prof. Bailey Finn ties this history to our present, including the racial algorithm behind the old version of the VBAC calculator. tinyurl.com/4xxamsfs

"When providers defaulted to repeat cesareans as the best treatment for this risk, they participated in a history of obstetric racism." Nicholas Rubashkin analyzes how women and their providers engaged with the vaginal birth after cesarean calculator pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37459454/

The October Special Issue, Racism in Reproductive Health: Lighting a Path to Health Equity, is now available ahead-of-print. Read the entire issue for FREE at journals.lww.com/greenjournal/t…

Check-out the The Green Journal Special Issue to address #racism in #reproductivehealth. Introductory editorial features cover art by #MichelleBrowder that tells a powerful story! Stay tuned for more!!! journals.lww.com/greenjournal/f…

New research from Nicholas Rubashkin & team in a special edition of The Green Journal on racism in reproductive health explores how patients responded to the vaginal birth after cesarean calculator’s use of race and ethnicity as a risk factor bixbycenter.ucsf.edu/news/patient-l…

What is the patient perspective of the interpretation of calculator-generated VBAC probability? @Nrubashkin Ifeyinwa Asiodu 🤱🏿😷💉 Birth Place Lab ARRWIP Jailcare ow.ly/lUvX30sxiWr