Hospital ≠ Prison
Lopital ≠ Prizon
A reproductive-justice project to abolish hospital prison and reckon with obstetric apartheid
Project Partners
Alissa Jordan, PhD
Center for Experimental Ethnography
Ani* (Pseudonym)
Nurse Midwife
Jean-Denis Aurelus
ADDEF
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Fè Pitit Ann Ayiti
Ann Ayiti, lè akouchman nan ak lè a dapre akouchman se de peryòd nan lavi fanmi ki vrèman enpòtan. Nan tan sa yo, fanmi Ayisyen yo konn reyini, yo konn anbrase nouvo lavi a ki aparèt devan yo, yo konn pran swen nouvo manman. Swen sa a komanse anvan ou akouche tou, pandan ou toujou…
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Naming the Hospital-Prison
Images of Haitian mothers giving birth, struggling between life and death is an all too familiar image to aid workers and Christaian missionaries working across Haiti. In elite fundraisers across the globe, in megachurches as well as hospital galas, it is used to pull on heartstrings, loosen checkbooks, and invoke feelings of both pity and…
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Not an Exception But a Pattern
There are connections between the reproductive injustice Haitian mothers endure as a result of medical-detention and the obstetric violence against Black and Indigenous mothers in the United States and around the world. The Black maternal and infant birth outcomes in the United States are the worst in any developed country in the world. Black mothers…