DBM Episode 39: Mothering, Art, & Black Maternal Health

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Dear Mama,

When it comes to Black Maternal Health, our work is not over when Black mothers survive and the child is born alive.  Black maternal health should not fade into our peripheral because Black Maternal Health Week has passed  In this episode we discuss being invited to do an art installation for Round 50 of Project Row Houses that centered Black Maternal Health, the importance of art in this movement and art’s capacity like nothing else to creep into the crevices of culture and push us forward.  Before we jump into that convo we take a discuss witnessing our children during hard situations inspired by card number 19 from our Black Mama Magic Card Deck: I honor my child’s divine path.  We hope this episode reminds you that motherhood is not the graveyard of dreams, that our children are divine beings on their own divine journey, and when your mothership hits rough waters to soften. 

SYLLABUS

CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS, PRAISE REPORTS & PRAYER LIST REQUESTS

3:27 Card for the episode: I honor my child’s divine path 

13:57 The relationship with our children moves from care to reciprocity

22:57 Crystal’s Announcements

Friday, May 4th, 6pm on Zoom.  This is a free event. 

25:40 Nekisha’s Speaking Engagements

27:56 Thea’s Announcements

33:30 Black Pod Collective & WOC Podcasters

MAC & CHEESE

34:30     Project Row Houses

35:58     Black Maternal Health Art Installation Curated by Dem Black Mamas

39:12     A Prayer for Yemaya by NeKisha

48:36    Take & Power Shaping the Shift 

53:30    Oya by Thea

55:00   Poems were manifestations

58:04   Thea’s poem Oya as vows and the installation as a ceremony

1:00      Rooms as stages of pregnancy

1:05      Bible Belt Black: A Biomythography by Crystal

1:09      When you’re carrying a Black child you’re more than pregnant. 

1:10       Acceptance & Black mother & Oshun

1:12       Crystal’s TEDx Performance

1:13       Wheat Pasting the Revolution

1:15       Art can gets into into the crevices of culture that legislation can’t

1:16      Art expands us

BLACK MAMA SAY

1:19    Birth is suppose to shock your body into ingenuity

1:21    We do not own our children

1:22    Dear Black Mama, Soften

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