In episode 96, the sisters jump into some women's history beginning with the amazing and long history of Black midwifery in America. In early America, enslaved Black midwives (as well as Indigenous women) were responsible for birthing nearly all children in the United States. Today, Black midwives only make up between 5 to 9% of the profession while Black women are three to four times likely to die from a pregnancy related cause than white women (National Institutes of Health).

In part two, Laurel chats about the amazing Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochrane, who launched a new kind of investigative journalism. From checking into a women's asylum in order to expose its mistreatment of patients to traveling around the world to coming out of retirement to cover the horrors of World War I in Europe, Nellie lived one hell of a life...

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Black Midwifery Collective

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Source Materials--

Black Midwives--

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-significance-doulas-and-midwives#:~:text=Early%20African%20American%20midwives%20were,babies%20became%20a%20medical%20specialty.&text=The%20uniform%20dress%20worn%20by%20midwife%20Amanda%20Carey%20Carter

https://nursing.virginia.edu/news/bhm-black-midwives/#:~:text=Health%20departments%20established%20midwifery%20classes,%5Bis%5D%20so%20white.%E2%80%9D

https://wclp.org/black-midwifery-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%20rural%20America%2C%20however%2C%20Black,of%20births%20until%20the%201940's

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF8K751pz6k/?igsh=ODdmdzN3eXZpZHJ3

Nellie Bly--

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nellie-bly-0\

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nellie-Bly

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/world-nellie-and-other-19th-century-writers/

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

https://time.com/6074783/psychiatry-history-women-mental-health/

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/