#dismantlesystemsofoppression

[tribeofsuns]

we have to start dealing strategically with these systems that keep allowing our sisters to perish during childbirth. -koya ・・・ Mia Stallings should be here. • Can you even truly advocate for #birthjustice without imagining a world where birth is de-medicalized for low risk pregnancies (over 95% of births in NYC are considered low-risk); where there is an abundance of clean, well-equipped, free-standing birth centers staffed with folks actively anti-racist; where the deliberate restrictions placed on certified professional and licensed midwives are lifted and health insurance is made available to all and offers full coverage to anyone planning to birth at home or elsewhere? At the core of activism and advocacy is actively striving toward that vision. • • Mia’s community at @homelandhearttn posted the following: Today our village received a new ancestor ✨ Our dear client and friend, Mia Stallings (25) passed away this morning after experiencing complications during labor after an induction at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Mia was so excited about being the mother of her baby boy, Leo and was looking forward to being a stay at home mom. She was gracious enough to allow our first class of trainees to work with her on comfort and coping skills during labor and birth. We will forever do this work #forMia 💔 • • • Nashville. Community. You’ve read the articles. You know the statistics. NOW IT’S RIGHT ON YOUR FRONT PORCH. Another black woman has died giving birth. Another black child will never know his mother. Click the link in our bio to help support #BabyLeo in any way you can using our Amazon registry. Mia was never able to have a baby shower due to COVID and we want to make sure her son has everything he will need. Monetary donations can be made in Leo’s name to our ca$hApp ($homelandhearttn) or Venmo (@homelandhearttn). #blackmamasmatter #blackmaternalmortality #blacklivesmatter #BlackBirthsMatter #ProtectBlackBirthingPeople #medicalindustrialcomplex #dismantlesystemsofoppression #holdinstitutionsaccountable #BeyondBirthWork #reparations #miastallings #saveourselves #saveoursisters https://www.instagram.com/p/CDfT5B6gvdn/?igshid=1jvucdsr0y5yr

[sarahkassaye-blog]

It was something broader, deeper, that made folk kin.

Nella Larsen, Quicksand

[dominicanslovehaitians]

“Haiti geared its economy to paying back the French debt and missed out on industrialization, education, and development” Brian Concannon, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. If they couldn’t destroy the first black republic’s revolution they were going to find another way to bring destruction. #dominicanslovehaitians #loveconsciousness #ancestralhealing #understandinghistoryimpactingfuture #understandinghistory #decolonizekiskeya #decolonizeayiti #dismantlesystemsofoppression #economichealth #dominicanhaitian #haitiandominican #1804revolution #haitieconomy https://www.instagram.com/p/BxAIjBxl_qU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bo64bgr53sjh

[dmnsqrl]

#Repost @remindersofresilience (@get_repost) ・・・ Systemic oppression seeks to take your breath away in order to take away your voice. So when you feel you cannot speak—breathe. That alone can be a revolution. Day 51 of 100. #100dayproject #dismantlesystemsofoppression #revolutionarybreath #reachtowardsresilience #communitytheverb

[cathiibraxton-blog]

#dismantlesystemsofoppression ------------------------------------ Blog/Youtube. Link in the Bio. ⬇️ https://insearchofmyowngardens.com ------------------------------------ #catherinespeaks #blackgirlhope #insearchofmyowngardens #dismantlemisogyny #freedomfighter #seek #search #blackexcellence

[theabundantyogini]

#Repost @thebodypositive (@get_repost) ・・・ Since November, the urgency that we at The Body Positive have been feeling to reach more people with our messages of self-love and truly diverse beauty is stronger than ever. As an increasing number of our communities are targeted in the US and abroad, our resolve becomes even stronger. As all suffering and joy are rooted in the body, the connection is clear to us, and twofold: 1) Without the ability to have self-love, our hearts, energy, and actions are muted. For example, when our time is spent counting calories, searching for our “flaws” and diminishing our value, not only is that time lost, but our ability to speak and act, both for ourselves and in solidarity with others, becomes stifled. Our society is in desperate need of more strong leaders who want to make the world a better place and who can stand up against forces that are guided by fear, greed, and self-interest. We cannot afford to waste our time questioning our power, we MUST choose to find ways to step into it. 2) Without an expansive definition of beauty that is unlimited by the standards offered to us socially and by the advertising and health industries, we as a collective will continue to believe, even if subconsciously, that our value lies in our ability to match the eurocentric, white, thin, able-bodied, gender-conforming standards. If we do not work to transform our own “flaws” into beauty--which consequently will transform the way we see others as well--then we are participating in systems of oppression. We must choose to dismantle them instead. #intersectionalbodypositivity #dismantlesystemsofoppression #bodypositive #bodypolitics #bodypositivity #diversebeauty #selflove