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panb1mbo · 3 months ago

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the disrespect it is to call a white woman the founder of the doula movement like it’s some new age concept instead of ancestral care work that has been around since before we started claiming white people are at the forefront of birth work movements

#enslaved folks were forced into being wet nurses and postpartum doulas #my cultural practices have been belittled as superstitious or extreme longer than they’ve been recognized as healing and beneficial #we are not going to sit here and continue to put white birth workers on a pedestal without discussing the history of birth work #credit where credit is due #no ma’am you are not one of the founders of the doula movement or whatever the fuck was written in ur book

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