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I am a Full-Circle (Provisional) Doula, trained through the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) in Portland, Oregon, at the end of 2012. ICTC was founded by Shafia Monroe, CM, MPH, who has been a midwife for more than 30 years. ICTC emphasizes health inequities among Black communities, and works to train more doulas of color in order to address these. What is a doula? Being a doula means that I am a birth companion. A doula can be helpful with:. Instruction in newborn care. If we con...
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Injustice at the Breast Anywhere is a Threat to Justice at the Breast Everywhere! Help support Black Breastfeeding Research in Mississippi (Video). Thursday, June 18, 2015. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. In Black Feminist Anthropology. Asymp; 1 Comment. I’m finally going to Mississippi at the end of this summer! And when I say ‘. To help cover costs of these important components. Black women in this country have the lowest breastfeeding rates of any group, and breastmilk is. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Which I...
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On demand episodes are viewable for 21 days. What Would Malcolm Do? African American Political Thought’. Are IBCLCs the ‘New’ Infant Formula? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Enter your email address:. Click here to make a donation. It will help maintain this costly website, and will help keep this blog (that we all know and love) up and running! Anti 'Breast Is Best'. Breastfeeding in the media. With Stats module needs to be enabled. Enter your email address:.
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Anti ‘Breast Is Best’ | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Anti ‘Breast Is Best’. DECOLONIZE BREASTFEEDING A Giveaway! Thursday, August 1, 2013. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. In Anti 'Breast Is Best'. Asymp; 2 Comments. Happy World Breastfeeding Week, and Breastfeeding Awareness Month! This year’s theme is. Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers. And highlights peer counselors — who have done fabulous work. I’m looking around and I see so many advocates celebrating this time of year in their own unique way. I’m working to DECOLONIZE BREASTFEEDING! All names will...
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MISSISSIPPI | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Breastfeeding research in Mississippi — help support it! Thursday, June 16, 2016. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. Asymp; 1 Comment. I am raising money to help with a research project focusing on breastfeeding in the Mississippi Delta, USA. My visit to the Delta will be from mid-August through the end of September 2016. The image above of a Black woman breastfeeding, is from. Thank you to those who have helped out so far, and thanks for sharing the word. Thursday, March 24, 2016. Posted by Acquanda Stanford.
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book reviews | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Mama Midwife: A Birth Adventure : Book Review (Update) Giveaway! Sunday, June 16, 2013. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. Asymp; 5 Comments. 8216;Mama Midwife: A Birth Adventure.’ Createspace Independent Publishing, 2013. Can you think of many other awesome things happening than an author revising a book, based on feedback from readers. But in this context, I’m talking about Christy Tyner, who wrote Mama Midwife: A Birth Adventure. I reviewed this children’s book. Christy Tyner said she wants to get the messa...
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Doula Progression | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Will I become a certified #doula, after all? Thursday, May 22, 2014. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. Asymp; Leave a comment. ICTC Full Circle Doula. Since I took the ICTC doula training. At the end of 2012 I’ve worked to complete the list that you see, in order to work towards certification. I’ve been able to check off several items, but in the past number of months (or more) it has not changed. As you’d probably imagine being a full-time graduate student (and TA) I’ve had next to. I really think the traini...
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breastfeeding in the media | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Breastfeeding in the media. ARE YOU MOM ENOUGH? My thoughts on ‘TIME’. Friday, May 11, 2012. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. In breastfeeding in the media. Asymp; 3 Comments. Yes, I have seen it! I had a few people send this article my way today. It’s the latest version on TIME. Magazine, with a woman on the cover with the headline “ARE YOU MOM ENOUGH? 8221; — failing to mention how many woman don’t even breastfeed, which is the issue we should be looking at instead of otherizing. Would You Drink Breastmilk?
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books | Acquanda Y Stanford
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What I’m Reading (And Reading, And Crying To) : #FreeToBreastfeed: Voices of Black Mothers. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. Asymp; Leave a comment. 8216;Free To Breastfeed: Voices of Black Mothers’. Praeclarus Press, 2014. I remember the call for papers for ‘Free to Breastfeed,’ — when the editors Jeanie and Anayah first began compiling it a couple of years back — this anthology of Black women who breastfeed. It was nice to see this progression. Was not expecting that. Such a thing as...
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Black Feminism | Acquanda Y Stanford
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Why Karlesha Thurman’s graduation picture is so dangerous to the racist and sexist American society. Thursday, June 12, 2014. Posted by Acquanda Stanford. Asymp; Leave a comment. Ain't i a woman. Black women do breastfeed. After chattel slavery ended it continued:. 8216;Systematic devaluation of black women was not simply a direct consequence of race hated, it was a calculated method of social control. During the reconstruction years, manumitted black people had demonstrated that given the same oppor...
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