“To write for a Black family, you start asking yourself, ‘What am I doing?’ So we cast all Black actors for Gerald’s family — that helped with authenticity. Then we listened to Jamil, Gerald’s voice actor, loved his phrasing and pacing, and wrote more of what he brought. In the ’90s, we were doing our best just to show different ethnicities on screen, thinking it’d be cool for a kid to see Gerald and say, ‘Finally, a character that looks more like me.’ People tell me that now.”
Craig Bartlett, Creative Talent Network (2020)
Brionna Johnson was told she would have to end her pregnancy and undergo a hysterectomy. Instead, a 27-pound fibroid was removed while preserving her pregnancy and her ability to have children. Too often, Black women face limited options or are not heard. This outcome shows what is possible when patients are listened to and given real care. Equity in maternal care is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
@Zoya_ki_batein Men: ‘women’s only value is baby-making’
Also men: *uses women in prime child-baring years with 0 intention of parenthood*
What do you think protect and provide means?! You’re meant to give her the environment to be a wife and mother!!! Not to be in a portfolio you dumb fuck 🤣