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Writing Ourselves into (BE)ing.
Micknai Arefaine1, Melissa Cheyney2, Nadia English-Williams3
1Community Accountability Partner, Za Gualay Consulting, OHSU/PSU School of Public Health, Portland, OR, USA.
Health Promotion Practice
|March 3, 2025
Summary
Imagining Birth Equity (I-BE) re-centers Black maternal health using creative methods. This approach challenges traditional research, promoting joy and self-determination for equitable birth justice.
Area of Science:
- Reproductive Health
- Public Health
- Social Epidemiology
Background:
- US perinatal health and racial inequities are national priorities.
- Established research tools may perpetuate inequities in maternal health.
- Imagining Birth Equity (I-BE) questions conventional research frameworks.
Purpose of the Study:
- To re-center Black maternal health experiences using a Lordian framework for birth justice research.
- To challenge and reimagine existing research tools and methodologies in public health.
- To promote joy, pleasure, and caremongering in academic scholarship.
Main Methods:
- Interdisciplinary collaboration between reproductive anthropologists and epidemiologists.
- Community-led research integrating art, poetry, ethnography, and population data science.
- Utilizing Afrofuturism and speculative fiction to envision equitable futures.
- Applying a Lordian framework rooted in Audre Lorde's vision.
Main Results:
- Development of a counternarrative to epistemic violence in academia.
- Rejection of false dichotomies (e.g., qualitative/quantitative, art/science).
- Elevation of imagination, self-determination, and creative expression in research.
Conclusions:
- New methods are needed to promote equitable birth justice.
- Challenging traditional public health scholarship can foster healing and belonging.
- Research can be reimagined as a celebratory practice, moving beyond fear and competition.
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