Racism in Sexual and Reproductive Health with Dr Annabel Sowemimo

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode, Hannah is joined by sexual and reproductive health doctor Annabel Sowemimo, who is also the founder of Decolonising Contraception, a black & people of colour led collective that is striving for reproductive justice. Annabel discusses inequality in healthcare and research, including the maternity experience of black women and women of colour, and also the colonial history of contraception. She talks about the intervention of Western governments in the sexual healthcare of other countries and the damaging effects of this, such as with the Mexican City Policy. Finally, Hannah and Annabel talk about the impact of sex education community currently being largely made up of cis, white people, and how Decolonising Contraception are working to address this.

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0:00.0	Summers out there.
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0:27.7	Terms and conditions apply.
0:30.0	So in terms of the policy, it's actually got worse.
0:31.9	So it's been reintroduced by every Republican president since Ronald Reagan, including Trump, who's extended it.
0:38.7	And essentially it means that organizations that provide any kind of sexual health services
0:44.1	often have their funding cut because generally public health measures tell you that
0:49.1	you have to mention abortion because, you know, it's a good public health measure.
0:53.8	If you don't mention it, more women die.
0:55.8	So obviously any health organisation is going to mention it, even if they don't provide
0:59.3	that care.
1:00.1	But if they do, they don't get US funding.
1:06.3	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
1:17.8	Hi everyone, welcome back to Doing It. I'm really excited to share this episode with you because it's one of those ones where I felt like I learned so much from my guest and I
1:30.3	really hope that you do too. So this week my guest is Dr. Annabelle Showamimo. She is the founder
1:37.4	of decolonizing contraception and they are a non-profit community organization created by people of color working in sexual and reproductive health.
1:48.7	They provide resources and run events and workshops and they crowdfunded for the first sex fest.
1:55.7	So it is happening on the 18th of April in Camden and I believe tickets are on sale now and they describe it as a
2:05.0	sexual health and well-being event for people of colour. Annabelle is a community sexual and
2:11.7	reproductive health doctor and she founded decolonising contraception in 2018.
2:22.4	In this episode, we talk about racism in sexual and reproductive health,
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