January 31, 2025

11am - noon
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Ariel Hart
MD-PhD candidate at UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

"I wanted to be able to surrender”: Black women’s reflections on seeking out and receiving care in a Black-Led Birth Center"

Topic: 25W-MCD BIO-193-SEM-32 Journal Club Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Speaker Bio: Ariel Hart (they/them) is a nonbinary abolitionist MD-PhD candidate at UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Their research interests include black trans feminisms, afrofuturism, and reproductive care ecologies.

Talk Title: “I wanted to be able to surrender”: Black women’s reflections on seeking out and receiving care in a Black-Led Birth Center

Talk description: Ariel Hart will be discussing findings from their ethnography of a local Black-led birth center as an alternative to dominant allopathic pregnancy, birth and postpartum care. This talk will focus primarily on insights drawn from interviews with postpartum clients regarding their motivations for choosing this particular mode and site of care and the possibilities this model provides in the context of the broader maternal mortality crisis and increasing assaults to reproductive rights.

Time: Jan 31, 2025 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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