Healing Dialogues: Maternal Health and Women's Knowledge

300 College Drive,Sarasota FL 34243

17 February, 2022

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Join us for an engaging discussion about maternal health and the internal knowledge of Black Women. “CAMPUS CONVERSATIONS: Maternal Health and Women’s Knowledge” will feature two experts hosted by Dr. Miriam Wallace, Professor of English & Gender Studies at New College of Florida. This conversation will lay out the stakes of maternal health and birthing experience for Black women and their children in particular, bringing together a historian, a medical doctor and community health activist, and a practicing doula to discuss these issues and experiences with the audience. Participants include: Amelia Villada, local birth consultant, doula, and Hypnobirthing practitioner in our community and Dr. Maneesha Lal, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and a scholar of health and illness history. This talk will focus on how Black women and their communities work together to recognize and support mother and child through the birthing process. “The knowledge about how to give birth is born within every woman: women do not need to be taught how to give birth but rather to have more trust and faith in their own body knowledge.” ~BirthWorks Please join us for the other two dialogues in our Healing Dialogues series: 1) Friday, February 4th - The Healing Drum 2)Thursday, February 24th - My Sister's Keeper Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support for this program was also made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. New College’s annual Black History Month program rallies the campus community as we celebrate and explore the rich history, culture, and contemporary realities of Black people and communities. As an annual program, Black History Month at New College intentionally focuses on Black communities in the United States and abroad in order to highlight the complexity and multiplicity of blackness and Black experiences.