Black people experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. 

In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, a nationally-recognized observance week which happens April 11 - April 17, 2022, the National Network of the Libraries of Medicine, cosponsored by Regions 1, 2, 3, 7 and All of Us, with a Black Birth Worker and her client.

Join us to learn:

• What is a Black Birth worker?

• What are the experiences of Black Birth Workers and their clients?

• How can working with a birth worker as a compliment to hospital medicine or care?

• How is community medicine tied to social justice and equity?

Recommended audience:

• Library Workers

• Public Health Workers

• Health Professionals (Nurses, Medical Students, Family Medicine, OBGYN)

• People considering using a Birth Worker

• Those interested in alternatives to traditional hospital services

• Those interested in maternal health, especially Black Maternal Health

Tay Amari Little (She/Her+He/Him) is a Conjurewoman, Baby Retriever and esoteric birthworker, diviner and artist at (Un)Veiled Divine Technologies. She offers a variety of birthkeeping services including arsenals for both pregnant people and those who are seeking to be. Arsenals also include monthly check-up appointments with the Unborn babies and reporting back, prescriptions, on-call retrieval services, and performing rituals and other processes requested by respective Ancestors and spirits involved for a successful duration. (Un)Veiled Divine Technologies’ birthwork practice centers Black trans, queer, and gender-expansive birthgivers, and then also allows space for non-Black clients of color.