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BCR Founding CEO, Owner & Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist. Southern Black Woman. Medical Humanities Scholar. Paradigm Architect, Systems Disruptor, Narrative Alchemist, Author, Activist. Trekkie, Foodie, Yoda Follower, Traveler. 🍫🥃🥞🍹🌊🌅
✨✨New Chapter Publication in a New Book✨✨
Special thanks to my Co-Author, Co-Editors & Springer Publisher
Chapter 12. Intersectional Drivers of Mental Health Inequities By Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG & Sung-Jae Lee, Ph.D
30% discount code: AUTHOR30
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We are Whole. We are Holy. We are Human. 💜
Session 7: Reclaiming Our Power Through Birth
📅 Sept 29 | 5:30–7PM CT
Part of You, Me & SACKRED Birth series.
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NEW 📕 FLYER!!
Bloomsbury Publishing acquired Lexington Books of Rowman & Littflefield! Please get your copy of the book using the NEW discount code GLR BD8 to get 20% off at
www.bloomsbury.com/9781666938395/
#SACKREDBirth
What if birth autonomy wasn’t something to fight for—but something already ours?
Session 4 of You, Me & SACKRED Birth with Dr. Karen A. Scott centers Black birthing people resisting coercion and reclaiming power with birth plans, community, and love. ✊🏾
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The book offers a new quality paradigm grounded in cultural rigor & lived experience. Through the SACKRED framework—Safety, Autonomy, Communication, Kinship, Racism, Empathy & Humanity & Dignity—I reveal how we can redefine quality & rebuild care in our image. Order today: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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“Embodying Safety & Accountability in Care”. In Session 3 of You, Me & SACKRED Birth, we’ll elevate a new, culturally rigorous definition of safety—rooted in love, protection & belonging. Join us WED, May 28 @ 5:30PM CST. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31d9ef...
“Equal pain, separate care.”
In Session 2 of You, Me & SACKRED Birth, we’re naming how anti-Black racism and misogynoir manifest in medicine—especially during our births.
Join me on Mon, April 28 at 7 PM CT. This session is for you.
Register now:
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Yesterday, I celebrated the homecoming of my baby, #SACKREDBirth with my ancestors and God. She arrived 2/14/2025. And the celebration continues. Best Love Day gift ever! Order your copy today: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
Special 30% discount code LXFANDF30 (hopefully it’s still active).
Join us at the Obstetric Patient Safety Summit 2025 as we dive into this year’s critical theme: Championing Birth Justice for & with Black & Native Youth. Don’t miss out on powerful discussions, inspiring speakers, & actionable solutions.
📅 Register now & learn more!
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SACKRED Birth offers a new quality paradigm to address violations of physical & emotional safety as defined by obstetric racism during childbirth hospitalization. Get 30% off your ebook available now or pre-order the hardback available January 20th using code LXFANDF30. rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
Reading, sharing, citing, teaching & practicing SACKRED Birth opens your head & heart to the deceptive, dismissive & dehumanizing standard of obstetric care throughout the U.S. Pre-order your copy & save 30% using the code LXFANDF30.
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We all deserve a #SACKREDBirth
Give the gift of ethics, knowledge, leadership, science, measurement development and monitoring strategies, data quality and accessibility, and community participation and partnership in obstetric quality.
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SACKRED Birth offers a new quality paradigm to address violations of physical & emotional safety during childbirth hospitalization using Black feminist hermeneutic phenomenology & public health critical race methodology.
Enter the code LXFANDF30 & pre-order today.
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Black and white photo of a young Little Richard at the piano with an old boxy microphone near him
HBD Little Richard, one of the foundational pillars of rocknroll and a massive inspiration to everyone who didn't fit into mainstream society. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom!
Your support powers the Obstetric Patient Safety Summit 2025, a movement 4 lasting change in hospital birthing practices.
Together, we can ensure every birth is safe, supported & just. 💛
Click the link to donate & learn more: www.opss-sankofa.com/donate
#BirthJustice #GivingTuesday #SACKREDBirth
🌍 This #GivingTuesday, let’s come together to transform birthing care for Black & Native youth.
With the SACKRED Birth framework, we’re creating safer, more equitable experiences that center dignity and justice.
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#BirthJustice #GivingTuesday #SACKREDBirth #OPSS2025
This incredible place is the Valley of the Moon in the Atacama Desert. With the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds (satellite galaxies to the right) it looks otherworldly. The bright star over the rock formation is Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to us. This image takes me away.
#milkyway
You’re such an inspiration !!! See you in 22 days !!! Hugs and mucho love!
Register for our 2nd Obstetric Patient Safety Summit, Feb 19-23, 2025 and get 25% OFF any ticket.
This limited-time offer is your chance to join the movement at a fraction of the price. 🖤
Hurry—this sale ends November 30!
Secure your spot and save BIG today!
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The wait is over—our Black Friday 48-hour sale is officially here! 🎉
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📣Get your ticket to any of the OPSS 2025 events during our 48-Hour Black Friday Deal!!
💥Save 25% on early bird tickets Nov 28-30th!!💥
General registration starts 12/1/2024 until Feb 19-23, 2025!
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📣Get your ticket to any of the OPSS 2025 events during our 48-Hour Black Friday Deal!!
💥Save 25% on early bird tickets Nov 28-30th!!💥
General registration starts 12/1/2024 until Feb 19-23, 2025!
To register:
whova.com/web/3d7ip-Fq...
To view OPSS 2025 agenda:
www.opss-sankofa.com
UN Women's report on femicide showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Joel in his office, sitting at his desk.
Wow, there's a lot of us here now. Reintroducing myself:
I am Joel 👋🏿.
My lab studies how the microbiome shapes the immune system in health & disease, using a mix of bench and computational approaches.
I am also passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists 🥼.
#immunology
#microbiome
Thank you ✨
Hi. I would like to be added as a Black feminist implementation scientist that measures, monitors and mitigates obstetric racism. Thank you.
📸 Don’t forget to take pictures and tag us on when you visit! Let’s celebrate this milestone together.
#HealthIsAHumanRight #SACKREDBirth #BirthingCulturalRigor #AchievingHealthEquity
📣 Mark your calendars! The exhibit opens November 25, 2024, and runs through August 1, 2025, with a global online experience available. Visit the CDC Museum in Atlanta, GA, to witness powerful stories and innovations reshaping public health.
📣 Exciting News!
The exhibition features contributions from over 100 U.S. individuals, orgs & govt agencies incl Birthing Cultural Rigor in collab w/The Educated Birth highlighting the SACKRED Birth framework & the PREM-OB Scale® in “Using the Lived Experience to Address Obstetric Racism”.💡
📣 Exciting News!
Dr. Karen Antoinette Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG, and Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC are thrilled to announce their participation in Health Is A Human Right: Achieving Health Equity, a collaboration between the David J. Sencer CDC Museum and CDC’s Office of Health Equity. 🎉