"TUFF" addressing Black maternal mortality
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47115305
BIRTH IS SACRED AND TAXING! SO WHY DO BLACK WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE IGNORED? WHY DO BLACK WOMEN CONTINUE TO DIE.
"Police Brutality is just ONE factor of systemic racism. We have barely touched
EDUCATION
HOUSING
PUBLIC HEALTH EQUITY
HIRING DISCRIMINATION
SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
COLORISM and more " @__briggs_
My name is Yelita Ali, I am 21, I am a woman, and I am black. For as long as I can remember it has always been important to me to change the narrative of what black women are. How they are perceived and the deadly consequences of these stereotypes. One that struck a chord with me being the disproportionate ways in which black women are dying at such a critical rate during pregnancy.
The short “Tuff” will be an exploration of the high death rate black women suffer around childbirth. Often my mother has told my twin sister and I how her pregnancy with us almost cost her, her life. Even with my little sister. Doctors often are dismissive when black patients especially black pregnant women express pain. This is due to the social conditioning that has led us to be seen as subhuman and “strong” like some kind of animal. I guess this topic strikes a nerve with me as high profile black women such as Serena Williams and Beyoncé we’re both almost killed due to doctors ignoring their plea. I’ve been lucky already to have a little thing I made during Quarantine about black womanhood and loneliness be a success so I’d also like to take a moment to say
Thank you @shesgotwonder and @normanreagallery for already giving “The Perpetual Search” a platform. But now is the time to continue to add to the small selection of educational black film that is already out there. The fact there is a finite number of contemporary documentary that delve into black issues is deplorable. It’s important to face the fact we CANNOT drive our world forward until we dismantle the media that has brainwashed us all in such subliminal ways. With “Tuff” I want to explore black womanhood and how for so long that has meant endurance. That even in our most vulnerable moments we are still ignored our pain brushed aside and repressed. I hope with this film I can start to break down this unjust stereotype that has cost black women their lives. ALLIES, this is where differences are made.
£1000 will instantly be donated to https://nyumbanikwamama.co.uk
Here you will find birthworkers of colour. Doulas, midwives, antenatal teachers, alternative therapies, birth photographers, photographers, hypno therapists for birth.
£2000 will go toward production elements of the short. Including paying the all black female crew, as well as equipment and any travel or food requirements.
*** I’d also like to add I am in dire need of collaborators. The goal is to make this with an entire black female crew. If you are aware of Any black female cinematographers, operators, producers etc. Please don’t hesitate to send them my way.
BIRTH IS SACRED AND TAXING! SO WHY DO BLACK WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE IGNORED? WHY DO BLACK WOMEN CONTINUE TO DIE.
"Police Brutality is just ONE factor of systemic racism. We have barely touched
EDUCATION
HOUSING
PUBLIC HEALTH EQUITY
HIRING DISCRIMINATION
SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
COLORISM and more " @__briggs_
My name is Yelita Ali, I am 21, I am a woman, and I am black. For as long as I can remember it has always been important to me to change the narrative of what black women are. How they are perceived and the deadly consequences of these stereotypes. One that struck a chord with me being the disproportionate ways in which black women are dying at such a critical rate during pregnancy.
The short “Tuff” will be an exploration of the high death rate black women suffer around childbirth. Often my mother has told my twin sister and I how her pregnancy with us almost cost her, her life. Even with my little sister. Doctors often are dismissive when black patients especially black pregnant women express pain. This is due to the social conditioning that has led us to be seen as subhuman and “strong” like some kind of animal. I guess this topic strikes a nerve with me as high profile black women such as Serena Williams and Beyoncé we’re both almost killed due to doctors ignoring their plea. I’ve been lucky already to have a little thing I made during Quarantine about black womanhood and loneliness be a success so I’d also like to take a moment to say
Thank you @shesgotwonder and @normanreagallery for already giving “The Perpetual Search” a platform. But now is the time to continue to add to the small selection of educational black film that is already out there. The fact there is a finite number of contemporary documentary that delve into black issues is deplorable. It’s important to face the fact we CANNOT drive our world forward until we dismantle the media that has brainwashed us all in such subliminal ways. With “Tuff” I want to explore black womanhood and how for so long that has meant endurance. That even in our most vulnerable moments we are still ignored our pain brushed aside and repressed. I hope with this film I can start to break down this unjust stereotype that has cost black women their lives. ALLIES, this is where differences are made.
£1000 will instantly be donated to https://nyumbanikwamama.co.uk
Here you will find birthworkers of colour. Doulas, midwives, antenatal teachers, alternative therapies, birth photographers, photographers, hypno therapists for birth.
£2000 will go toward production elements of the short. Including paying the all black female crew, as well as equipment and any travel or food requirements.
*** I’d also like to add I am in dire need of collaborators. The goal is to make this with an entire black female crew. If you are aware of Any black female cinematographers, operators, producers etc. Please don’t hesitate to send them my way.
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Yelita Ali
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