Recent Publications
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Contraception, “Sex Differences in Beliefs Regarding Abortion Access as a Women’s Health Issue,” October 16, 2025
Chapter 20: Liberating our labor: Cooperative Organizing Among Birth Workers and Beyond. In Information, Power, and Reproductive Health. Litwin Books and Library Juice Press. (2025).
The Nation, “Abortion Care Is Central to Black Maternal Health,” April 17, 2025
Maternal and Child Health Journal, “Building Collective Power to Advance Maternal and Child Health Equity: Lessons from the New Orleans Maternal and Child Health Coalition,” September 28, 2024
The Nation, “We Can Ensure Parents, Children, and Birth Workers Thrive,” August 7, 2023
Rewire News Group, “What I Learned From a Failed Childcare Experiment,” Aug 29, 2022
The Nation, “Black Mothers Are Dying. The Least We Can Do Is Listen to Their Stories,” April 12, 2022
Rewire News Group, “Celebration and Suffering: Black Breastfeeding Has Room for Complexity”, Aug 27, 2021
Antigravity Magazine, “I Just Gave Birth and I Still Can’t Stop Thinking About George Floyd,” July 1, 2020
HuffPost, “I’m Due to Give Birth Today, But All I Can Think About is George Floyd,” May 31, 2020
In “Liberating Our Labor: Cooperative ORganizing Among Birth Workers and Beyond,” Latona Giwa RN BSN IBCLC describes the process of cooperatizing Birthmark Doula Collective and the resulting impacts to workers’ labor. This chapter provides a potential model for how reproductive health and justice workers can self-organize to truly embody the tenants of our movement, “not just for our clients and communities, but also, for ourselves.” Summarizing twelve years of cooperative organizing from 2011-2023 as Co-Founder of Birthmark Doula Collective, Giwa’s analysis is urgently relevant in the context of growing attacks on reproductive health today: “As the birth and reproductive justice movements grow and evolve, now is a pivotal moment to shift power dynamics within our internal community – amongst our workers and workplace structures – in order to sustainably create change in the wider movement, and to extend those effects outward into health and justice fields and into our communities as a whole.”
Information, Power, and Reproductive Health encourages readers to explore the inextricable intersection of reproductive health information and power. Rooted in a framework of reproductive justice, it explores the ways in which power plays a central role in how reproductive health information is created, controlled, withheld, and shared. Deeply entrenched ideologies about which bodies are deserving or undeserving of reproductive care, which facets of reproductive life are worthy of research, which issues are taboo or frequently dismissed, and how to control bodies considered unruly all affect what health information is easily accessible or perhaps hidden from those who need it. Legislative, bureaucratic, medical-scientific, economic, and familial systems and structures shape reproductive health information, and framing information production and consumption as a social act can help us to trace these structural and ideological forces in the reproductive health landscape and locate transgressive sites of information sharing that speak back to power. Chapters address the continued and more-urgent-than-ever interest in reproductive health, feminism(s), womanism, critical theory, and praxis in librarianship and information studies.