

Episode 6: Changing the Rules: Art, Healing & Black Maternal Health
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She had the best healthcare in Chicago. She followed every rule. She almost died. Artist Ashley January on surviving what the system got wrong, turning down a scholarship and finding her way back to art, and building her own studio w on the South Side. Black mothers die from pregnancy-related causes at more than three times the rate of white mothers, and more than 80% of those deaths are preventable. So who made these rules, and how were they designed to serve? @disruptdeletereset | ashleyjan.com | @ashleyjanart Resources: Black Mamas Matter Alliance, March of Dimes, Preeclampsia Foundation
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- Taryn and Andréa
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- full
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