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NIMH » Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Addressing the Risk for Persistent Effects of Trauma in the Mental Health of Women Across the Lifecourse

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 24, 2023 July 24, 2023Culturally Sensitive Mental Health, Gendered Violence, Health Care Equity, Our Minds, Our Nations, Racism, Real Life Issues, Sexism and Misogyny, Video 0

https://youtu.be/QiyUN1UFNqg So, when we think about trauma-related psychiatric disorders such as PTSD and depression, we understand that they affect more than twice as many women than men. And that women are also more likely to experience chronic illness that persists for more than a year. Despite the evidence of sex differences in the epidemiology of…

Women in Africa: Spirituality, Health, and Healing, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Madeleva Lecture 2018

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 19, 2023 July 19, 2023Africa, Africana Womanism, Bucket Crabbing Other Marginalized People, Culturally Sensitive Mental Health, Feminism, Gendered Violence, History, Lectures, Maaternal Feminism, Our Feminine Ancestors, Our Feminine Elders, Our Nations, Racism, Spirituality, Video 0

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6mEiYGUPE&ab_channel=SaintMary%27sCollege[/embed] Mercy Amba Oduyoye was honored as the 2018 Madeleva Lecturer. Her lecture, “Women in Africa: Spirituality, Health, and Healing,” took place on April 19, 2018 at Saint Mary’s College. Oduyoye is the director of the Institute of Women in Religion and Culture at Trinity Theological Seminar in Legon, Ghana. Affectionately known as the “mother…

Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Battle Nation’s Stillbirth Crisis

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 14, 2023 July 14, 2023Bewombed Specific, Exposing Neo Colonialism, Health, Health Care Equity, Healthcare Professionals, Links, Our Bodies, Our Children, Parenting, Racism 0

After legislation fell short of passage last year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers hope to advance a new bill to fund stillbirth prevention, and they credit ProPublica for its reporting. Source: Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Battle Nation’s Stillbirth Crisis

Over-the-counter birth control pill approved for sale in U.S.

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 13, 2023 July 13, 2023Health, Health Care Equity, Morphological Freedom, News, Our Bodies, Our Nations, Parenting, Real Life Issues, Reproductive Choice 0

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GakbjBY4k&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour[/embed] U.S. regulators approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill. The FDA signed off on Opill, a once-a-day tablet available by prescription since 1973 that will soon be readily available online and in stores. The move is being applauded by medical societies and women’s health groups who pushed for wider access. Geoff Bennett discussed…

What Can Ex–Abortion Doctor Yashica Robinson in Alabama Do?

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 24, 2023 June 24, 2023African Diaspora, Africana Womanism, Bewombed Specific, Black in Maizeland (U.S.), Exposing Neo Colonialism, Forced Birth, Gendered Violence, Health Care Equity, Healthcare Professionals, Incarceration, Links, News, Our Children, Our Nations, Political Misogyny, Religious Abuse and Exploitation, Reproductive Choice, Sexism and Misogyny, State Sanctioned Violence, White Supremacist Terrorism and Sabotage, Women and Femme Leaders, Women in STEM 0

A year ago, the patients in the waiting area at the Alabama Women’s Center on Sparkman Drive in Huntsville were separated into two rooms. In one, the staff put people whose abortion procedures had already begun through taking a dose of misoprostol. In the other were the ten or 15 who had come for their…

Woman jailed over illegal abortion loses appeal

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 21, 2023 June 21, 2023Bewombed Specific, Forced Birth, Health Care Equity, Incarceration, Links, News, Our Nations, Political Misogyny, Religious Abuse and Exploitation, Reproductive Choice, Sexism and Misogyny, State Sanctioned Violence 0

A woman imprisoned for more than two years for taking abortion pills outside of the legal time-limit has had an appeal against her sentence rejected.Carla Foster, a mother of three, from Barlaston, Staffs, took abortion-inducing drugs when rules were relaxed during the first Covid lockdown, when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.The 44-year-old…

Mazaher Lyrics, Song Meanings & Music Videos

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023Africa, Africana Womanism, Culturally Sensitive Mental Health, Depression, History, Links, Maaternal Feminism, Music, Our Art, Our Feminine Ancestors, Our Feminine Elders, Our Minds, Spirituality, Video, Women and Femme Leaders 0

Mazaher is an ensemble in which women play a leading role.The musicians of Mazaher, Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan, Nour el Sabah are among the last remaining Zar practitioners in Egypt. The music is inspired by the three different styles musical styles of the Zar tradition practiced in Egypt. One of the African dimensions of Egypt,…

Call for Proposals Year 2: Consortium Development Projects to Advance Health Equity

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 15, 2023 June 15, 2023Black in Maizeland (U.S.), Grants and Funding, Health, Health Care Equity, Healthcare Professionals, Links, Opportunities, Our Bodies, Our Nations, Research and Studies, Women in STEM 0

The Consortium Development Projects to Advance Health Equity program seeks to fund multi-disciplinary research projects that use or develop novel AI/ML algorithms to address health disparities and inequities in alignment with the AIM-AHEAD North Stars in populations that experience health disparities in the US. Applications for this solicitation will use new or existing real-world data…

A Postpartum Page-Turner

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 7, 2023 June 7, 2023Bewombed Specific, Books, Culturally Sensitive Mental Health, Depression, Health, Links, Parenting, Post Partum Depression 0

Austin author Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel The Nursery, a memoir-looking work about a new mother suppressing baby-harming thoughts, is an engaging experiment in uncomfortable empathy that finds its tonal antecedents in cerebral body horror movies like David Cronenberg’s The Brood and David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and its stylistic sisterhood in the early avant-garde confessionals of French…

Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India | Global development | The Guardian

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 2, 2023 June 2, 2023Asia, Breast Health, Health, Health Care Equity, Healthcare Professionals, Links, Our Bodies, People, Women in STEM 0

The most satisfying part of Ritika Maurya’s work is reassuring the anxious. “Women fear coming for breast examinations,” says Maurya. “What if a lump is found in my breast? Will that be the end of my life? These are some of the questions that haunt them all the time.”Maurya is, she says, “still learning to…

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NIMH » Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Addressing the Risk for Persistent Effects of Trauma in the Mental Health of Women Across the Lifecourse

Women in Africa: Spirituality, Health, and Healing, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Madeleva Lecture 2018

Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Battle Nation’s Stillbirth Crisis

Over-the-counter birth control pill approved for sale in U.S.

What Can Ex–Abortion Doctor Yashica Robinson in Alabama Do?

Woman jailed over illegal abortion loses appeal

Mazaher Lyrics, Song Meanings & Music Videos

Call for Proposals Year 2: Consortium Development Projects to Advance Health Equity

A Postpartum Page-Turner

Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India | Global development | The Guardian

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