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Misogynoir in Education: a Racial Justice in Practice workshop with Dr. Moya Z. Bailey

Submitted by emlaffey on Tue, 03/19/2024 - 11:09am

Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Dr. Moya Z. Bailey, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, founder of the Digital Apothecary, and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective for a workshop on misogynoir in education. This workshop invites participants to identify where misogynoir exists in their lives and begin the long processual work of learning how to uproot it.

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Submitted by heidiab on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 9:20am

Panel discussion on maternal and infant health for Black birthing communities with authors of a new anthology.

CANCELED/POSTPONED: The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field

Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 10:30am

CANCELED/POSTPONED

Black Feminist Health Studies lecture by Deirdre Cooper Owens, the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Surffring and Bleeding As Though You Was Killing Hogs”: Mass Incarceration and Black Women’s Health

Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 11:53am

Public lecture by Prof. Talitha LeFlouria (UVA) on the medical lives of black women in America's jails and prisons.