Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, MWM recruits momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Mommying While Muslim
SERIES Latina Muslima Moms: Over DUE: Afro Latina Muslim Midwife Insights
Eva Martineau, Afro Latina of Mexican and Haitian lineage and nurse midwife, discusses persistent racial disparities in birth care that traumatize primarily minority populations in America. Find out why this researcher didn't stop at stats, but collected degrees as she decided to set the stirrups straight and serve her community to prevent further harm to future generations. She's taking names and kicking false stories we tell about birth in the...well, take a guess.
We've touched on birth work as a social justice movement in the past, but never like this! Hear how poor healthcare affects Latina Muslimahs and their children, get mad and get busy fixing it.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or head over to our website landing page. Link in bio. Share the episode with childbearing Latinas that you know, Muslim or not.
Links:
- Follow Eva on IG: @reclaiming_luz
- Who are the Inape?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-native-new-yorkers-can-never-truly-reclaim-their-homeland-180970472/
- Learn more about the Papa Doc regime in Haiti: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-50-years-after-papa-doc-haiti-democracy-still-work-in-progress
- Immigration is a Birth Justice Issue: Considerations of Health in the Haitian Refugee Crisis: https://pretermbirthca.ucsf.edu/news/immigration-birth-justice-issue-considerations-health-haitian-refugee-crisis
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6835a3.htm
- Pregnant Hispanic women's views and knowledge of prenatal genetic testing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgc4.1383
- Maternal Mortality in the United States: A Primer: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-brief-report/2020/dec/maternal-mortality-united-states-primer
- Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2778205
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