EBB 220 - Fighting Bias in the Birth Room with Irth® App Founder, Kimberly Seals Allers
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Kimberly Seals Allers (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker strategist, and an advocate for perinatal and infant health. A former senior editor at Essence, and writer at Fortune Magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, lactation, and parenthood. Kimberly is the founder of Irth®, a new Yelp-like app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and racism in perinatal and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice, and to reverse the narrative of negative statistics that is common in mainstream media coverage of Black perinatal health.
We talk about the updated research from Irth®’s movement to eradicate racism and bias in perinatal and infant care. We also talk about the importance of actively implementing strategies for safer birthing spaces for Black and Brown birthing people.
Content warning: We mention racism, bias, Black perinatal death, and trauma.
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Kimberly Seals Allers here and the Irth® App here. Follow Kimberley on Instagram. Follow the Irth® App on Facebook and Instagram. Listen to the Birthright Podcast here.
Listen to EBB 161 here.
Learn more about Dr. Carla Williams here and her feature on the Birthright Podcast here.
Learn more about March of Dimes here.
Learn more about the White House Maternal Day of Action press release here.
For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EvidenceBasedBirth/ ), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth/), and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/ebbirth/). Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/). Find an EBB Instructor here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/find-an-instructor-parents/), and click here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/childbirth-class/) to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Earth app founder Kimberly Seals |
| 0:05.8 | Alers to update us on Earth App's mission to fight against racism and bias in |
| 0:10.9 | perinatal and infant care. care. Welcome to the Evidence-based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Birth. |
| 0:24.0 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:28.0 | into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:32.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:35.0 | See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi everyone my name is Rebecca Decker pronouns she her and I will be your |
| 0:46.6 | host for today's episode today we are so excited to welcome Earth App founder |
| 0:51.6 | Kimberly Seals Allers. |
| 0:54.1 | Before we interview Kimberly, I want to let you know |
| 0:56.1 | that we will mention racism and bias in this episode. |
| 0:59.8 | And if there are any other detailed content |
| 1:02.4 | or trigger warnings, we always post them in the |
| 1:04.8 | description or show notes that go along with this episode. |
| 1:08.2 | And now I'd like to introduce our honored guest. |
| 1:10.7 | Kimberly Seals, Allers, Pronouns,ounds She Her, is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, |
| 1:16.7 | international speaker, strategist, an advocate for perinatal and infant health. |
| 1:22.1 | A former senior editor at |
| 1:23.7 | essence and writer at Fortune magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the |
| 1:28.1 | racial and sociocultural complexities of birth, lactation, and parenthood. |
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