'The onus is on Black women and people to speak up even when it has been proven we aren't always listened to. It should be on the healthcare system to fix systemic problems that have existed for centuries,' writes L'Oréal Blackett (LOreal_B).
by hospital staff before being diagnosed with life-threatening preeclampsia made headlines as she helped bring the issue to mainstream news. “I grew so tired of hearing Black women are five times more likely to die during childbirth over and over,” Awe said over Zoom. “At one point I said, OK, so what are we doing about it? We didn’t want to just raise awareness.”
One of FivexMore’s main criticisms of the government's taskforce is that they haven’t listed any clear “targets".They are urging for something more “tangible.” That starts with collecting extensive and “never-seen-before”don’t know what’s going on behind all the statistics,” shared Awe. “We always say there are real people behind the statistics and for every Black person who passes away, there are hundreds more that have had serious complications. It is not documented anywhere.
“I don’t think anything is enough,” says Malone. “If there’s going to be some real change, from education to money, then great. “I feel we’ve heard [about the taskforce] before in different guises, in different set-ups, in different funding pots and different taskforces. We've been around the block with this,” Malone added. “It’s great that people are talking about it, great that people are documenting it. I think the taskforce will just back up what we’ve already been saying for years.
Taking this research to my mother inspires a very frank conversation about motherhood we’ve never had before. I’ve turned my “hard no” about becoming a mum into a tentative “maybe” and she is now rooting for me to be informed in pregnancy over not-so-blissful ignorance. “It’s interesting,” she tells me, thoughtfully, “Black motherhood is often shown as rooted in pain, but I truly believe it is doubly an experience of joy, love and, yeah, most definitely courage.
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