"Birthing Justice" Documentary Screening & Discussion

Description

Join the Center for Social Concern, Johns Hopkins Black Faculty and Staff Association, and University Writing Program for a community screening of the documentary Birthing Justice. A panel discussion and reception will follow the screening.

Birthing Justice is a feature-length documentary whose purpose is twofold: to discuss issues fueling the maternal health crisis within the African American community and to advocate for best practices to enhance birthing equity for all women, especially Black women. The film explores this national epidemic via four regions — Washington, D.C., Augusta, Georgia, several areas in Missouri, and California — interviewing those affected by current policies, i.e., birthing individuals and healthcare providers, as well as those, such as birthing advocates, activists, and policymakers, at the forefront of advancing policy change.

Birthing Justice flips the victim-blaming narrative, centering on the lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time.