"Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right."
Warsan Shire (via missgreyday)
(Source: afrosandpeeptoes, via mujer-encabronada)
i wish i could just spend my time writing about black american southern midwifery tradition.
and what does it mean that anarcha was a south carolinian slave who was tortured so that the practice of gynecology could be born.
and how much does the villification of midwifery as dirty, uneducated, risky have to do with (black) granny midwife movement in the south.
and how if we can see that black women’s reaction to racism/sexism (higher cortisol levels) leads to the horrifically high maternal and infant mortality rates in black women, what does it mean that at the point that they are giving birth the majority of people in the room are probably white.
and how so many natural birthy people want to attribute the abysmal maternal and infant mortality rates in the us (the highest of any industrialized nation) to too many interventions and c sections etc. but overlook that actually what makes that rate so high is woc’s birth experiences, its their mortality rates that make the overall us rates so horrible.
(Source: andysilverheart)
Indiana.
good news, mama’s cancer is out of the “danger zone”. so, really good day.
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
Eartha Kitt (via humanformat)
(Source: lucifelle, via girl-germs)
I have the never-ending flu and have been pretty delirious for days and my skin is trembling? sleep it off
main thoughts are babies and glitter are cool. so are dads that get you enough of your favorite food to last you for days before leaving town. I’m pretty pathetic rn.
