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[Chapter 9]: History Behind Black Breastfeeding Week
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Thank you for tuning into the StoryNoir podcast!
Happy Black Breastfeeding Week. I broke down the complex history of body feeding and why that’s important context for the conversations we’re having around reproductive justice today.
Support your local birth workers :) Want to talk more about Eponymous Birth Collective? Head over to https://www.storynoir.com/eponymous to schedule a call
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More information about Black Breastfeeding Week: https://blackbreastfeedingweek.org/
Journal of Southern History: “Mothers’ Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South” (2017) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/647289
Roberts, D. (2000). Killing the Black Body. Vintage Books.
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