📢🆕 We are hiring!
Do you want to join our enthusiastic and productive research group or do you know someone who should see this vacancy?
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow in Sexual Health - check out the details here:
https://t.co/wRPjCNuXmS
New publication 📣
Here's a gem that we poured our hearts & soul into. The next game changer in #ObstetricViolence research. With @RodantevdWaal@feministnoire @DrRChadwick @FeministJournal
🌟Trigger warning🌟
Please read & share. 🙏🏽
https://t.co/erPDyr0s55
#BackToBasics for #advocacy: What is #midwifery?
To better familiarise communities around the world with what midwifery is, and what comprises the midwife's competencies & scope of work, refer to ICM's Definition of Midwifery👇
https://t.co/5gr42tYthT
Critical Midwifery Studies: A fresh, innovative calling together of practitioners, scholars, and theorists to confront systemic injustice in SRMN care through foundational understanding.
Greater access to midwifery care is often touted as a solution.
But without understanding the root causes of the inequities, midwifery cannot offer an effective alternative.
A Commentary in the journal Birth calls for the creation of a brand new field of inquiry: Critical Midwifery Studies.
Around the globe, systemic injustice threatens sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn (SRMN) health.
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🔜 Up next at #HRC50: Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng @drtlaleng, #SpecialRapporteur on the right to #health presents her report on #violence & its impact on the #RightToHealth
📘Read the report here: https://t.co/MtHoSvP5F3
📺Watch it live here:
https://t.co/fwlGzUWfch
In recognition of the expertise and labour of our peer reviewers, Feminist Review has started offering Peer Review Honorariums. More on our blog: https://t.co/GpTj3RNAB8
NEW REPORT🧵
The safety of women and birthing people from Black and Brown and mixed ethnicity backgrounds is being put at risk due to systemic racism within UK maternity care, the findings of our year-long inquiry into racial injustice in maternity care have revealed.
There were many accounts of women and staff hearing Asian women being referred to as "princesses" or "precious" and black women as "aggressive" or "angry"
https://t.co/BaRdOkM8vj
@bashazard @birthhumanright@world_midwives@feministnoire@mi_niles @drdanaaindavis @WRA_UK
ADVISORY:
City of Toronto
- Due to the emerging storm our non-emergency lines will be temporarily closed
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- For storm related issues call 3-1-1
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Stay tuned for a rich panel discussion featuring country speakers & global partners (including BPL postdoc. fellow @Mayra_K11) at the launch of Essential Childbirth Care Course #ECBC on Apr 27, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. PST! 🌅
Register → https://t.co/DZuV6JOtmv
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New and important article for #GBV researchers from @philipp_schulz1 , @Anne_Kreft @HeleenTouquet & Sarah Martin titled "Self care for gender-based violence researchers - beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines"
Link to article- https://t.co/couSUMpKfc
Here's my most crucial work on unearthing narratives of #obstetricviolence & respectful care through #BodyMapping with women in #Bihar, India. Read, share, circulate with a *Trigger warning*. 🙏🏽 https://t.co/2QzpDWGwOl
@SandallJane @TheZedster @UoS_SocSci @KingsNursing @WHO