{"id":226107,"date":"2020-06-24T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=226107"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T03:05:31","slug":"documentary-filmmaker-birth-control-anti-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/documentary-filmmaker-birth-control-anti-black\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Documentary filmmaker and guest discuss birth control’s ‘anti-Black history’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent\u00a0Instagram discussion<\/a> between documentary producer Ricki Lake (“The Business of Being Born” and the forthcoming “The Business of Birth Control<\/a>” slated for release later in 2020), and Chelsea VonChaz, co-founder of #HappyPeriod<\/a>, centered on “The Anti-Black History of Birth Control.”<\/p>\n

During the discussion, VonChaz admitted that ‘birth control has this kind of dark connection with eugenics, population control, and just the feeling of superiority, or feeling as if this specific intelligence or this specific trait\u2014physical trait\u2014is superior over the other….” She added that “because of racism… so many individuals… in the past used fake news, fake science, fake research to uplift the narrative that whites are better and Black is not.”<\/p>\n

And this philosophy\u2014that Black women were ‘less than’\u2014led to human atrocities. “… [A] lot of individuals who [were] men, specifically, white men… spent a lot of time experimenting on Black bodies and Black female bodies, and using their research findings as a means to push the narrative [of racism] in the healthcare system,” added VonChaz.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea and Ricki discuss the story behind #HappyPeriod, the anti-Black history of birth control, how our healthcare system is still rooted in racism and more! . . . . . @rickilake #womenshealth #reproductivehealth #periods #thebusinessofbirthcontrol #education #blacklivesmatter<\/a><\/p>\n

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