Infertility: A Black Man’s Journey

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We don’t often hear stories about Black men struggling with infertility.
Today, we meet Jared Wright and his wife Erica, who share their story about their road to parenthood.

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0:00.0	Hi soupless nerds, today's episode contains slightly sensitive subject matter.
0:08.5	We just wanted to let you know.
0:19.4	So I searched for infertility, you'll see hundreds of thousands of posts with that hashtag.
0:28.0	So then when you search for male infertility, there's like maybe tens of thousands that
0:35.2	I remember.
0:37.2	And then you search for hashtag blackmail infertility.
0:41.9	There's like nothing.
0:44.5	Hey Hannah, hey Lila.
0:47.2	Today we're talking to Jared and he has a personal story about infertility.
0:53.6	His infertility.
0:54.6	Yeah, and Lila, we've heard lots of stories
0:57.8	about women and their struggles with infertility, but not too many about black men, right?
1:07.0	Black male infertility.
1:08.7	Let's stoop this out.
1:17.3	The stew.
1:18.3	The stew.
1:19.3	The stew.
1:20.3	The stew.
1:21.3	Stories coming across the black diaspora.
1:24.3	My cousins were water and grease girls, and I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
1:28.4	That's what I'm talking about about arena in the hood.
1:30.3	We be gulligitia, 90 people.
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