Join us on March 7, 2024 at 2pm for an in-person lecture, "Traumatic Repercussions: Black Women and Obstetric Racism," by Dána-Ain Davis, Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and on the faculty of the PhD Programs in Anthropology and Critical Psychology. This talk will chart the way two Black reproducing bodies are shaped by obstetric racism. Davis will share the birthing experiences of two women and think through their medical encounters by considering how Black bodies are degraded, ushering them toward mistreatment. Here, Davis argues that obstetric racism produces traumatic repercussions  weighed down by disposability, neglect, and medical abuse.

Moderated by Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at UC Berkeley.

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology, the Medical Anthropology Program, the Department of Sociology, the Maternal, Child, and Adoloescent Health (MCAH) Program in the School of Public Health, the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for Social Medicine, the Department of Gender & Women's Studies, and the Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster in the Othering and Belonging Institute.

Please register below to join us in-person for this event.

Date and Time: March 7, 2024, 2:00pm Pacific

Location: Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley