Pregnancy and racism at work

In today's episode Simone reflects on pregnancy and racism at work, taking an intersectional lens, considering the experience of people who are pregnant and people who birth which includes more people than just cisgender women. So they begin with some definitions and discussion of these lenses and categories.

This episode is a companion to the episode on motherhood and/or parenthood and racism at work: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/16083900

They look at this piece of scholarship: "'Oh gosh, why go?' cause they are going to look at me and not hire": intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36627577/

From the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/

And discuss it’s findings and related reflections they have based on lived experience and wider study.

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