Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Speaker Series: Dr. Mali Collins, "Reproduction and Medical Technology in the Age of ‘Crisis’"
Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Speaker Series: Dr. Mali Collins, "Reproduction and Medical Technology in the Age of ‘Crisis’"
This hybrid talk investigates the rhetoric of "crisis" as it pertains to the "Black Maternal Health Crisis," and the ways "crisis" navigates as a bull horn to necessitate the over medicalization and mis-/and overuse of reproductive technologies on and for black birthing people.
Dr. Mali Collins is an Assistant Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at American University. Dr. Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, 20th and 21st century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and justice. She is a practicing birth, postpartum, and pregnancy termination doula, and a trained Perinatal and Infant Loss advocate with The Womb Room in Baltimore, MD.
Co-sponsored by the Language, Writing, and Rhetoric group and the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective.
This hybrid talk investigates the rhetoric of "crisis" as it pertains to the "Black Maternal Health Crisis," and the ways "crisis" navigates as a bull horn to necessitate the over medicalization and mis-/and overuse of reproductive technologies on and for black birthing people.
Dr. Mali Collins is an Assistant Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at American University. Dr. Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, 20th and 21st century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and justice. She is a practicing birth, postpartum, and pregnancy termination doula, and a trained Perinatal and Infant Loss advocate with The Womb Room in Baltimore, MD.
Co-sponsored by the Language, Writing, and Rhetoric group and the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective.
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