Alice Proujansky: Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births
Alice Proujansky
In fall 2020, we supported the production of 18 short-term visual projects responding to stories and issues related to the 2020 US elections. We aimed to publish each project in an effort to offer expanded perspectives on our current social and political realities through the lenses of creative and diverse image makers around the country.
Published this week, Alice Proujansky profiled Black women worried about Covid-19 and racial inequities in health care seeking alternatives to hospitals for their births.
Read more in The New York Times.
“Ms. Lafayette said it was important to her that women of color be part of her care. ‘I was just terrified of not being able to be heard and seen by my birthing team,’ she said. ‘I liked that I was surrounded by Black women. That was the most comforting thing, like being in a womb of my own.’”