Season 3 Episode 2: Lucinda Canty on racism in institutions and birthing care
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Synopsis:
As a US-based Black nurse-midwife, Lucinda Canty knows that nurses and midwives do not leave their prejudices at home. Implicit assumptions and biases follow them to work and wield a profound influence on perinatal care and patient outcomes. In this episode, we talk about the challenges of addressing racial disparities in reproductive health – and the power of bringing people into conversation about their shared experiences. [Content warning: This episode contains conversations about medical trauma and negligence]
Notes:
Follow Lucinda on Twitter: @LucindaCantyPhD
Overdue reckoning
https://nursemanifest.com/ongoing-overdue-reckoning-on-racism-in-nursing/organizing-team-for-orrn/
Lucinda’s house https://lucindashouse.org/
Lucinda’s poetry and visual art https://nursology.net/aesthetic-knowing/lucinda-canty-poetry-and-visual-art/
Music in this episode includes ‘Algorithms’ by Chad Crouch, ‘Dark Water’ by Nul Tiel Records and ‘Webbed’ and ‘Salientia’ by REW<<<, used under a Creative Commons license from Free Music Archive.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.
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