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'In and Around Us' - Black Lives Matter, Midwifery, and The Secret Community, with David Monteith

David Monteith is an actor, father, infant loss activist and antiracism activist. Great bloke. Join us for a conversation about BLM in Britain, in midwifery, obstetrics, history and how we can all help.

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Info on David's extraordinary heritage is in a Guardian article here.

His videos we talked about are here.

 

In my own responses, I am heavily influenced by:

Nathan welch - trans midwife YouTube channel and just Nathan in general

Brene Brown's podcast with Laverne Cox - when I mention being J.K. Rowling I was quoting Laverne Cox - her film 'Disclosure' is now out on Netflix!

The resources and books David mentioned:

Nova Reid - antiracism guide

Historian David Olusoga's 'Black and British'

Natives- Akala

at Akala the Oxford Union

Don't Touch My Hair - Emma Dabiri

Racism at work - Binna Candola

When We Ruled - Robin Walker - summary version much cheaper here

Black Pantha - film you can get on Netflix

Empire of Benin Wikipedia page (cool!)