Born Free Method: The Podcast The Aftershock of black women dying in childbirth with Shawnee Benton Gibson & Omari Maynard
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Shawnee and I met through a 2023 trip to South Africa with Restore Forward and Sevonna Brown. She then introduced me to the film Aftershock, which highlights the ripple effect that results from a woman dying in childbirth, and it was Shawnee’s daughter, Shamony, whose death inspired the film. Shamony is survived by Omari and their two little children. Shawnee and Omari are thus no stranger to the lived experience of losing another black woman at the hands of the most cumbersome and expensive healthcare system on the planet. Why are black families suffering in ways that white families will never have to understand? What can be done to rectify the system? How do we heal as a collective? We do our best to answer these questions in this humbling conversation…
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References and Links from the show:
- Speak! Move! Change!
- The ARIAH Foundation
- The Spirit of a Woman Leadership Development Institute
- The Anarcha Archive
- Black Americans’ views about health disparities, experiences with health care from the Pew Research Center
- Aftershock film (trailer)
- Restore Forward
- CDC data on Black fathers (versus other races)
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