Kimberly Seals Allers (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker strategist, and an advocate for perinatal and infant health. A former senior editor at Essence, and writer at Fortune Magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, lactation, and parenthood. Kimberly is the founder of Irth®, a new Yelp-like app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and racism in perinatal and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice, and to reverse the narrative of negative statistics that is common in mainstream media coverage of Black perinatal health.
We talk about the updated research from Irth®’s movement to eradicate racism and bias in perinatal and infant care. We also talk about the importance of actively implementing strategies for safer birthing spaces for Black and Brown birthing people.
Content warning: We mention racism, bias, Black perinatal death, and trauma.
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Learn more about Kimberly Seals Allers here and the Irth® App here. Follow Kimberley on Instagram. Follow the Irth® App on Facebook and Instagram. Listen to the Birthright Podcast here.
Listen to EBB 161 here.
Learn more about Dr. Carla Williams here and her feature on the Birthright Podcast here.
Learn more about March of Dimes here.
Learn more about the White House Maternal Day of Action press release here.
For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EvidenceBasedBirth/ ), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth/), and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/ebbirth/). Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/). Find an EBB Instructor here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/find-an-instructor-parents/), and click here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/childbirth-class/) to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.
EBB 143 - Birthing in a World with Reproductive Justice with Ihotu Ali, Daniela Montoya-Barthelemy, and Shayla Walker
EBB 142 - Home Birth Transfer during COVID-19 and Uprisings in MN with Jenae Herron and Marcel Malekebu
EBB 141 - Birthing and Disparities in Minnesota with Rhonda Fellows and Dr. Jennifer Almanza
EBB 140 - From Hospital Birth to Home Birth with Kristin and Zach Crosby
EBB 139 - Evidence on Red Raspberry Leaf Tea for Natural Labor Induction
EBB 138 - Healing after a Traumatic Birth with Bianca Marie Roberson
EBB 137 - The Power of Birth Stories with Bryn Huntpalmer
EBB 136 - Solutions for the Crisis in American Maternity Care with Jennie Joseph
EBB 135 - The Need for More Indigenous Birth Workers with Miranda Kelly
EBB 134 - Natural Induction Series: Evening Primrose Oil
EBB 133 - Transitioning from Birth to Parenting with Dr. Heather Maguire
EBB 132 - Teen Pregnancy Support, and a Surrogacy Story with Ambrosia Meikle
EBB 131 - Evidence on: Pitocin During the Third Stage of Labor
EBB 130 – Home Birth in the Black Community with Isis Rose
EBB 129 - COVID-19 and your Childbirth Education Business with Natalie Eckdahl
EBB 128 - Inducing Labor with Castor Oil and Dates
EBB 127 - An unmedicated hospital birth with Katie Kane
EBB 126 - Finding the right provider, and birth in the Dominican Republic with Leiko Hidaka
EBB 125 - Evidence on Acupressure, Acupuncture and Breast Stimulation
EBB 124 – Health Disparities, Advocacy, and COVID with Sabia Wade
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