"Born Innocent" uncovers the ongoing legacy of state-mandated family separation on Indigenous and other minority communities, with a particular focus on women and children. OUPblog - Academic insights for the thinking world.
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End birth alerts that separate at-risk Indigenous mothers from their children

End birth alerts that separate at-risk Indigenous mothers from their children

Born Innocent uncovers the ongoing legacy of state-mandated family separation on Indigenous and other minority communities, with a particular focus on women and children.

To overcome the intergenerational legacy of state-mandated family separations beginning with the residential and boarding school policies of settler states, governments must give Indigenous communities more autonomy to manage their own child welfare...

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Formerly incarcerated women of color face worse health in later life

Formerly incarcerated women of color face worse health in later life

In 2021, Harlem-based activist Shawanna Vaughn stated during a Forbes interview: “Walking into prison at 17 was the most traumatic experience of my life…As a person who suffers from the remnants of mass incarceration, I am very clear that the trauma starts before prison and lingers forever until there is help.”

Incarceration takes a heavy toll on one’s mental and physical health. The conditions of jails and prisons in...

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Equity in health care [podcast]

Equity in health care [podcast]

There are many factors that affect our ability to be healthy and we unfortunately do not all have the same access to care. Barriers can be related to cost, discrimination, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity – to name just a few.

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we complement Oxford Academic’s extensive “Health Equity” collection of journal articles, book excerpts, and online resources by speaking with two medical experts, Dr Jon...

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Guns and the precarity of manhood

Guns and the precarity of manhood

This is an excerpt from chapter 6, “Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged” of Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement’s Response to Social Progress by Kristin J. Anderson.

Manhood is precarious. Unlike womanhood, manhood is hard won and easily lost and therefore men go to great effort to perform it—for the most part for other boys and men—sometimes to their own and others’ detriment.[63] Men will go out of their way to not appear unmanly or...

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The possibility of a world without intimate violence

The possibility of a world without intimate violence

This is an extract from chapter seven, “From Hysteria to Justice,” of Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women by Anne P. DePrince.

A century and a half ago, doctors averted their collective gaze from the intimate violence in women’s lives to blame hysteria on women themselves. Meanwhile, violence against women continued to be wielded as a weapon of social control, tearing at the fabric of Indigenous and...

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