Health Disparities, Advocacy, and the Coronavirus

This episode of the Evidence-Based Birth podcast is an interview with Sabia Wade, a Black and Queer full-spectrum doula, doula business coach, and reproductive justice advocate. Sabia talks about how she decided to become a doula, the Prison Birth Project, her experience as a Black woman seeking treatment for her own fibroids, and founding her non-profit, For the Village. The conversation reflects on race and health disparities, advocacy, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Most of the people that come to me that want to be a part of the training, aren’t coming because they want to know where babies come from. They’re not, they’re coming because they’re like, “I want to learn about the inequalities that are going on. I want to know what’s my part in this. I want to know what I can do. I want to be aware of food insecurity. I want to be aware of all these different things that are happening, these inequities that are happening because they’re birthing themselves as an advocate.” So it was just important for me to put that in name and then birthing advocacy doula trainings came and here we are.

SOURCE: Evidence Based Birth • AUTHOR: Rebecca Dekker, Sabia Wade | Evidence-Based Birth • LAST UPDATED: April 13, 2020