Jennifer Nash: Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

Read this except to Jennifer Nash's new book Birthing Black Mothers. 

"When I ask Lauren, a Black birthworker who lives and works on Chicago’s South Side, to describe the two-day doula training she completed, she tells me that they ended it with pneumatics gunshot wound training.“I remember having a deep conversation with my husband about how knowing how to potentially save someone from a gunshot wound was related to birth,” she said." Read the full excerpt on LitHub here.