Chapter Four: The Southern Spark

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Martina Abrahams Ilunga

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Fannie Lou Hamer, Southern freedom fighter and one of the oldest Black-founded towns in the country spark The Browns' most transformational decision yet.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Chapter 4, The Southern Spark.
0:09.0	One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change. Not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.
0:20.0	Fannie Lou Hamer in a 1964 New York Times interview.
0:30.4	It's 2013, and Shayla and Eric are fresh out of college, recently married, and living near Shayla's family in the
0:38.4	Mississippi Delta.
0:40.5	It seemed like the next logical step would be to start a family, but their attitudes about
0:44.8	having children were totally different.
0:47.8	Shayla wanted kids.
0:49.4	Eric didn't.
0:51.2	But despite that, they started having more conversations about what parenthood could look like
0:55.8	and what it would take to get pregnant.
0:59.0	I was starting to, we were starting to plan it, but we weren't like planning, planning.
1:03.6	And so around 2013, I started to get into, I bought this book called Honoring Our Cycles and learning how to chart and track
1:12.9	my fertility. So I got into that. I think I had read the Queen of Fua book, Sacred Woman. I was
1:20.9	like reading that. So just trying, I started to get into trying to be fertile, I guess. One night I woke up and I was having these really, really bad cramps,
1:31.3	and I didn't know what was going on.
1:33.3	So the next day I went to a clinic, I left work and was like,
1:36.3	something's not right.
1:37.3	Like, I'm bleeding, I was cramping.
1:38.3	I don't know.
1:39.3	Like, I'm going to go to this clinic.
1:41.3	The sudden pain was disorienting for Shayla because she'd already taken her pregnancy test and it came back negative.
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