February 6, 2021

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/.

Conference Schedule for Saturday, February 6:

11:00 a.m-12:30 p.m. Panel Six: Race, Pain, and Care: Issues in Public Health and Clinical Practice in the U.S.

Chair: Jacob Moses

Nicholas Rubashkin, “Evidence-Based Discrimination: the MFMU VBAC success calculator and the implementation of a new racial algorithm in American obstetrics.”

Lotte Elton, “Knowledge, Community, and Care: Biocitizenship in Gestational Diabetes.”

Dionne Bensonsmith and Sophie Paek, “A Different Kind of Labor: Black women, Resilience, and Reproductive Justice in Uterine Fibroid Treatment and Care.”

Nicole Rodi, “Painfully Missing the Mark on Endometriosis: A Historical View of the Disorder, its Misdiagnosis, and Improving.”

Rachel Louise Moran, ““A New-Woman Post-Feminist Idea”: Consumer Activism and Postpartum Depression in the 1980s.”

1:00-2:30 p.m. Artist Talk and Q&A with Rebecca Mwase, performance artist and cultural organizer

3:00-4:30 p.m. *Reverse Keynote Discussion of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2016) edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai’a Williams, and China Martens

Victoria Law, journalist, author, and mother

Kellee Coleman, Mamas of Color Rising

Tanay Lynn Harris, co-founder of the Bloom Collective Baltimore

Cecilia Caballero, Poet, educator, and scholar

Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University

With Revolutionary Mothering editors, Mai’a Williams and China Martens

*El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish

For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/