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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
New York, NY
USA
Topic
birth justice
birth
racial justice
public health
birth stories
birth story
reproductive justice
midwifery
doula
doulas
history of American gynecology
history of medicine
community organizing
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Staten Island
Bronx
Queens
NYC
New York City
New York
home birth
hospital birth
advocacy
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
child welfare
drug use
substance use
pregnancy
parenting
stigma
abortion
young parents
teen parents
teen parent
teen parenting
policy
advocacy
gender
non binary
gender queer
trans
harm reduction
birth control
sterilization
fake clinics
crisis pregnancy centers
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Birth Justice Podcast NYC takes a close, comprehensive and creative look at how folks in New York City experience and navigate reproductive oppression and create resilience strategies for their health and their families. Through storytelling and conversations, BJP NYC provides a space for dialogue and debate addressing one of New York City’s most pressing public health and racial justice issues: birth. Hosted by Taja Lindley, podcast episodes feature one-on-one long form interviews and conversations with advocates, organizers, historians, scholars, healers, birth workers, pregnant and parenting people, and folks of reproductive age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first episode dropped Wednesday July 8th and featureds an interview between the host, Taja Lindley, and her mother, Adrianne Robinson, where they discussed Robinson’s experience giving birth to Lindley in 1985. This was a special occasion because the release date is also Lindley’s birthday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, Black women are three to four times more likely to die due to pregnancy related causes than white women. But in New York City, Black women are eight times more likely to die than white women. This is twice the national average. And during this pandemic moment, matters of public health are brought into focus, including long standing health inequities like maternal health. For example,when COVID first hit, NYC hospitals barred visitors during childbirth, leaving many people to labor alone. In response, Governor Cuomo issued an executive order allowing laboring people to have one support person during their childbirth. A few weeks after it was issued, however, Amber Rose Isaac - a 26-year-old pregnant Black woman - died after giving birth in a Bronx hospital. </span></p>
Organization Website
<p><a href="https://www.birthjustice.nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.birthjustice.nyc/</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/</b></a></p>
<a href="http://patreon.com/birthjusticenyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">patreon.com/birthjusticenyc</span></a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/birthjusticenyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@birthjusticeNYC</span></a>
Organzation Director
Taja Lindley
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Title
A name given to the resource
Birth Justice Podcast NYC
abortion
advocacy
birth
birth control
Birth justice
birth stories
birth story
Bronx
Brooklyn
child welfare
community organizing
crisi pregnancy centers
doula
doulas
drug use
fake clinics
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
gender
gender queer
harm reduction
history of american gynecology
history of medicine
home birth
hospital birth
Manhattan
midwifery
New York
New York City
non binary
NYC
parenting
policy
pregnancy
public health
Queens
queer
racial justice
reproductive justice
Staten Island
sterilization
stigma
substance use
teen parent
teen parenting
teen parents
trans
young parents
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place</a>
<a href="http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle</a>
Medium
photography
book
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
<p></p>
<h1>Hard To Place</h1>
<p></p>
<p><strong><span><em>For all loves never allowed to be.</em></span></strong></p>
<p><span><em>Hard To Place</em> is a true story about race, family and the child welfare system in post-war Britain.</span></p>
<p><span>Combining confidential, UK government documentation with archival and (auto)biographical photography, this series traces the experience of Joseph, an orphan boy of Nigerian and Irish parentage growing up in 1960s/70s London. As a “half-cast(e)” child, in England, Joseph was considered “hard to place” amongst the mostly white, adoptive families.</span></p>
<p><span>Joseph is my husband. On our first date he nervously told me his life story, continuously pulling at his sleeves to hide the ink of bad decisions made during his teenage years as a black skinhead. The little boy seen in <em>Hard To Place</em> is our son. The images in the book provide a visual alternative to the official, master narrative of child welfare that many mixed-race children are imprisoned by.</span></p>
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<h1>Trust Your Struggle (2010)</h1>
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<p>In 2010 during the months after giving birth to my son, I turned to the camera to work through a period of intense loneliness I had never felt before. <span>Feelings of joy and love for my new baby came with equal sentiments of fear and isolation. </span>This “post-partum” situation challenged me to make photographs within the spatial limits of our apartment and to visualize my entrance into motherhood.</p>
<p>During this time, my photographic practice allowed me to hold on to a creative aspect of my previous self that I felt was slipping with every diaper change and breastmilk-pumping session. <i>Trust Your Struggle</i><span> is a photographic essay that documents what is often considered taboo when publicly discussing the new mother experience: the isolation, hectic days, sleepless nights, physical pain and those rare, selfish moments.</span></p>
Topic
motherhood
child welfare
mixed-race children
post-partum
early motherhood
breastmilk
baby food
baths
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Qiana Mestrich
baby food
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
child wellfare
early motherhood
early parenthood
mixed-race children
wellfare