Danielle Atkinson established Mothering Justice in response to her own challenges with maternal care, aiming to combat racial disparities that threaten Black mothers. This article discusses the importance of Black Maternal Health Week, highlighting the organization's efforts to not only advocate for change but to actively create it. Under Atkinson's leadership, the group has organized around key legislative initiatives like Michigan's 'MI Momnibus' bills. Reproductive justice organizer Tamika Jackson shares her personal traumatic birth story, emphasizing the urgent need for trauma-free experiences for Black women in childbirth, underscoring the alarming statistics around maternal mortality rates.
We're not only calling for change, we're creating it.
The whole goal of organizing is to organize ourselves out of a job.
I suffocated during labor. I coded. I was put on life support and had an emergency C-section.
Black women are more likely to die during childbirth, have lower-paying jobs, and are often the primary caregivers.
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