Birthing Liberation, Sabia Wade
Birthing Liberation, Sabia Wade
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Birthing Liberation
How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free

Author: Sabia Wade

Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2023


Synopsis

Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years.

The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis, but it is a particularly tragic one.

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity. The issue of reproductive justice may sound specific, but it is in fact the birthplace of liberation. Its four guiding principles—analyzing power systems, addressing
intersecting oppressions, centering the most marginalized, and joining together across issues and identities—have the power to lead us to collective liberation in all facets of life.

Collective liberation rests on the idea that in order for us all to have equity in this world—from the safety of birthing children to the ability to bring a baby home to a safe community to having access to resources, safety, and opportunities over
the long term—we must all become liberated individuals.

Sabia C. Wade is a renowned radical doula and educator inspired to create a guide for how we can all achieve liberation through trauma healing and reproductive justice.

Birthing Liberation creates a path to social and systemic change, starting within the birthing world and expanding far beyond.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bri on January 26, 2024

I was very interested in this book and how I could evaluate, change, or improve my practice. However this book fell flat for me. I don’t think it focused on birth for me. Rather racial justices as a whole.......more

Goodreads review by Hava on September 01, 2023

loved the first two chapters. learned a lot about history of gynecology and the current inequities around birth, esp regarding race. very important. but…the rest fell a little flat for me, read like many other self help social justice books. wish there was more discussion of constraints of the medic......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on July 06, 2024

Listening to the audiobook and it was great, but I felt like she said “the end” but should have said the beginning of continued work or something else along those lines. Fabulous read for anyone and everyone. She did a great job explaining BIPOC & Non-BIPOC perspectives. Really like her ideas of not......more

Goodreads review by gema on September 02, 2024

an exciting first step into the world of birth justice and doula care work. “the only way to a new, improved, and safe world for all people, esp Black and Indigenous people and people of color, is to return to birth.”......more

Goodreads review by Tijuana on April 26, 2024

Argues that the high maternal and infant mortality rates experienced by Black birthing persons is due to racism, which for me may be useful in analyzing the high maternal and infant mortality rates experienced by Indigenous birthing persons. Opens with a story about a Black woman who died during chi......more