Library

Please find links to OBW’s reading list and resources below:

‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me by Edna Bonhomme

16 Black Feminist Archival Projects You Need to Know About Black Women Radicals

9 Reasons To Hate Anti-Abortion Billboards That Target Black Women by Akiba Solomon

A Silent War: The Battle Between Black Women and Fibroids by Tomika Anderson

A viral image of a Black fetus is highlighting the need for diversity in medical illustrations by Harmeet Kaur

A Woman’s Rights NYT Interactive Feature

Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture by Susan A. Cohen

African American women face a more aggressive type of endometrial cancer. Researchers can’t explain why by Dr. Amber Robins

Art exhibition at Birkbeck explores fertility in history Birkbeck, University of London

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth by Alicia D. Bonaparte and Julia Chinyere Oparah

Black Cultural Heritage and the Subversion of the Stereotypical Images of the Black Woman in Toni Morrison's Sula by Mona Faysal Sahyoun

Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

Black Lives Matter: Claiming a Space for Evidence-Based Outrage in Obstetrics and Gynecology by Kacey Y. Eichelberger, MD, Kemi Doll, MD, Geraldine E. Ekpo, MD, and Matthew L. Zerden, MD, MPH

Black Mothers Respond to Our Cover Story on Maternal Mortality by The New York Times Magazine

Black Women Are Dying From a Lack of Access to Reproductive Health Services by La’Tasha D. Mayes

Black women often cope with infertility alone by Jared Wadley

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 The Library of Congress

Dorothy E. Roberts, “Killing the Black Body: A Twenty-Year Retrospective” Yale University Lecture

Fall 2018 Journal: Voluntarily, for the Good of Society: Norplant, Coercive Policy, and Reproductive Justice by Elizabeth Jekanowski

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities by Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven

Five Myths About Women of Color, Infertility, and IVF Debunked by Alexia Fernández Campbell and National Journal

Here’s why many black women are silent about their struggle with infertility by Danielle Braff

How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Differences Still Live in Medicine Today by Linda Villarosa

How Simone Leigh’s Sculptures Centering Black Women Brought Her to the Venice Biennale by Alex Greenberger

How Women Artists Are Shaping the Way We See Motherhood by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

I’m a Black Woman and Thought My Period Pain Was Actually Going to Kill Me by Claire Francis

National Women’s Law Center - African American Women National Women’s Law Center

On Women and their Wombs: Capitalism, Racialization, Feminism by Françoise Vergès

Racial Integrity Laws (1924–1930) Encyclopedia Virginia

Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Evidence and Implications for Health Equity by Cynthia Prather, Taleria R. Fuller, William L. Jeffries, IV, Khiya J. Marshall, A. Vyann Howell, Angela Belyue-Umole, and Winifred King

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams

Silent and Infertile: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Socioeconomically Diverse African American Women With Infertility by Rosario Ceballo, Erin T. Graham, and Jamie Hart

SoHo Billboard: Womb is 'The Most Dangerous Place' for an African American by Paulette Brown-Hinds

Stereotypes of Black American Women Related to Sexuality and Motherhood by Lisa Rosenthal and Marci Lobel

Stories We Tell: The Fertility Secret MSNBC Feature

The Alienable Rights of Women by Roxane Gaye

The Abortion Underground is Preparing for the End of Roe v. Wade by Jessica Bruner

The medical ethics of Dr J Marion Sims: a fresh look at the historical record by L Lewis Wall, MD, DPhil

The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers by Leah Wright Rigueur

The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project University of Minnesota Libraries

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies by Caleb Smith

Top 10 Reasons Why the Fight for Reproductive Justice Isn’t Over by Sophia Kerby and Morriah Kaplan

Wangechi Mutu, Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors by Leila Riszko, National Galleries of Scotland

When the Water Breaks by Layla A. Jones

Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis by Linda Villarosa