Warrior Mamas: Voices of Loss and Womanist Spiritual Activism For Change

• In Event: Reproductive Precarity in Social Context

Abstract

Infant mortality, the death of a baby before a first birthday, is twice as high for African Americans as white raced Americans (CDC, 2014). High Cortisol levels, lack of access to quality healthcare and living in food deserts are some contributing factors. PhotoVoice and group conversations of Six African American women documented what they perceived to be contributing factors to their babies dying, how their vulnerable experiences were controlled and mediated by institutions and systems in which they had to interact, and ways in which they have decided to be agents of change.

Presenter

• Marcy L. Paul, TWU/UNTHSC