Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza
Childbirth is supposed to be empowering, but for many birthing people it is not. For Indigenous women, immigrant women and women of colour, birthing within the western healthcare system can be anything but affirming. It can feel unsafe. In this raw and challenging talks series, health researcher, clinician and nursing educator Dr Ruth De Souza (RMIT University) hosts conversations about birth, racism and cultural safety with change makers working within the maternal health-care sector to break down the structures built on colonisation. This is a series that will give birthing people hope and power when they’re at their most vulnerable.
Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza
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How many of you have been told that childbirth is the most natural of processes? That you’re strong and powerful, and that you’ve got this. When the reality is you’re vulnerable, exhausted, exposed and desperate for it all to end. Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza is a new interview series about birth, racism and cultural safety. Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.