It is not a risk-factor problem.
It is a conditions problem.

@dr.rhardeman writes that when survival becomes the frame, when we normalize the statistics instead of interrogating what produces them, we don’t just shape systems.

We shape bodies.
We shape expectations.
We shape what we allow ourselves to imagine is possible.

She asks a different question:
What would it mean to build systems that allow Black mothers to live fully inside their lives?

Black mothers have held everything together.
It’s time we build systems that hold them.

This piece is worth your full attention.
https://lnkd.in/gtM2z9-S