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What better time than Black Breastfeeding Week to have an uncomfortable and overdue public conversation about the ways power and white privilege work.
Breast milk’s effects on health has more to do with its impact on early formation of the gut, which has been found in recent years to benefit the body and brain long term.
Let’s remember that corporate power over breastfeeding choices is as personal as it is political.
“It is still unclear how all of these conflicts do not raise ethical flags for Harvard.”
Data proves that the US is catastrophically failing black babies. This is no time for silence.
Trump mocked #MeToo, repeatedly attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and nominated a judge to the Supreme Court who could help overturn Roe v. Wade.
Leveraging the emotional power of children while doing nothing to improve the actual lives of children is, quite frankly, diabolical.
From making Native American regalia more breastfeeding friendly to “smart” technologies, this weekend’s hack-a-thon goes above and beyond the breast pump.
As women, we have to wake up to the ways we are told and sold what are acceptable uses of our bodies or acceptable pursuits.
Black Breastfeeding Week starts today. We invite black parents, aunties, uncles and grandparents to join the conversation online and off to show our collective power to lift up every baby, every family and every community.