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Happy Black Breastfeeding Week. I broke down the complex history of body feeding and why that’s important context for the conversations we’re having around reproductive justice today.
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More information about Black Breastfeeding Week: https://blackbreastfeedingweek.org/
Journal of Southern History: “Mothers’ Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South” (2017) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/647289
Roberts, D. (2000). Killing the Black Body. Vintage Books.
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