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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Receipts
If you’ve been kidnapped by a hospital, receipts are the only visa you can hope for. These fragile pieces of beige and white paper carry the heavy blue ink of the doctor’s notes. Ink so heavy it can tear through the leaf of paper like tissue. On the page are also marks from administrators. They…
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Kin Ties and Collateral
Guerlande is a nurse. She worked hard to earn a degree in nursing, in the process of her training she witnessed her superiors holding women and their babies, and she was intimately familiar with the violence this wrought in patients’ lives.” “If they go to the hospital to give birth, there are hospitals in Haiti,…
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Pri Libete
Enben, anba yon sistèm kote lavi ou koute la libète ou, kijan manman ka gen konfyans nan sistèm medikal la? Likna se yon lòt manman te pale avè nou sou kesyon sa. Li sòti okap, epi li te siviv kèk mwa andan yon loptial misyon, oubyen mwen oblije di, yon lòpital prizon. Likna pat…
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Escaping, Care, and Calling It Out
For David, Guerlande, and Naomi hospital imprisonment, much as they tried to avoid it, was becoming how birth is experienced in their family. What do they and others do to resist the valuations on human bodies that become devaluations of life itself? Guerlande remembers an incident that always stirred her emotionally. It makes her voice…