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04/16/2026

10 years of Black Maternal Health Week and we’re still out here saying the SAME thing louder because apparently the system is hardheaded!

But here’s the part they don’t highlight enough:
✨ Birth centers work
✨ Midwives work
✨ Black-led care is saving lives RIGHT NOW

So if you’re wondering what YOU can do (because yes, you are part of the plan):
✔️ Hire Black doulas & midwives
✔️ Put your coins where your concern is (donate)
✔️ Share this post like your group chat depends on it
✔️ And maybe—just maybe—ask your elected officials why maternal health isn’t treated like an emergency

Because it is.

04/14/2026

POV: You’re a Black woman giving birth in America and the most dangerous thing in the room isn’t labor — it’s being ignored.

It’s week the stats are NOT okay:

📈 In 2023, maternal mortality rates went down for white, Hispanic, and Asian women — and went up for Black women, hitting 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births.

This isn’t biology. This is a system that wasn’t built for us.

The good news? Birth centers and midwife-led care have been shown to close the racial gap — and Black-led organizations are building the solutions right now.

So let's hear it for our midwives! We love you!

04/13/2026

Happy Black Maternal Health Week 🤎

This week is about data, yes.
But it’s also about legacy.
About love.
About the quiet, powerful magic of Black motherhood.

Black motherhood is:
🎀Braiding hair at midnight before church
💪🏾Showing up tired but undefeated
✋🏾Advocating in rooms that weren’t built for you
💗Loving your babies out loud in a world that doesn’t always love you back

It is joy.
It is resilience.
It is brilliance.
And it deserves to be protected.

Thank you so so much to Irth and Naturi Naughton-Lewis for always celebrating the brilliance of black women!

04/10/2026

She told me to marry a football player after my first C… that I wasn't cut up for this.
Now I’m out here saving lives 😏🩸

Don’t let small minds edit your big dreams. Keep going. 💪🏽✨

04/10/2026

She told me to marry a football
player after my first C…That I wasn't cut out for this...but now I’m out here saving lives 😏🩸

Don’t let small minds edit your big dreams.
Keep going. 💪🏽✨

03/25/2026

Let me be very clear:
If you are a healthcare provider using a sexually explicit or suggestive song while preparing to insert a catheter in a female patient, you have fundamentally misunderstood your role.

This is not humor.
This is not “just content.”
This is a violation of trust.

Every single day, women walk into exam rooms already carrying hesitation, fear, and yes—sometimes trauma. And THIS is exactly why.

Because instead of being met with professionalism, dignity, and care, they’re being turned into a joke. A punchline. A piece of content.

And let’s say the quiet part out loud:
When male healthcare workers participate in this kind of behavior, it reinforces what women have been saying for years—that their bodies are not always treated with respect in medical spaces.

We cannot keep acting surprised when women decline male providers.
We cannot keep questioning why patients are guarded, anxious, or reluctant to seek care.

This. Is. Why.

Medicine is not your stage.
Your patient is not your prop.
And their body is not content.

If you cannot approach a vulnerable, intimate procedure with the seriousness and respect it deserves, you do not belong anywhere near a patient.

Do better. Or get out of the room

03/23/2026

Midlife plot twist:
You don’t need less food… you need more protein 👀

If your energy is low, weight is shifting, and your workouts aren’t working like they used to…
it’s not you.

It’s your hormones changing the rules and protein is how you adapt.

We are NOT:
❌ surviving on salads
❌ skipping meals
❌ or not enjoying food

We ARE:
✔️ building muscle
✔️ supporting metabolism
✔️ eating like women who understand their bodies

Add the protein. Everything else gets easier.

Drop a 💪🏾 and shake how you are leveling up your protein era

03/11/2026

Look — I love social media. I’m literally here with you on it. But influencers are not medical doctors.

And listen, the government may be comfortable putting under-qualified people in positions of authority…
but I am not comfortable with under-qualified people directing your healthcare.

So please — check credentials.
Board certification exists for a reason.

And while we’re here… please do not come into the office with a full treatment plan written by ChatGPT, TikTok, Reddit, and your cousin’s group chat and ask me to sign off on it.

AI can help you ask better questions.
It should not be writing your medical management plan.

Because I promise you… the combination of AI + social media medical advice + influencer medicine is slowly wearing doctors down.

And by “doctors,” I mean…
me.

So trust your doctors.
We worked really hard to know what we’re doing.

03/11/2026

Well well well… Costco said fertility care should come in bulk pricing.

The warehouse giant is now offering IVF medications at up to 80% off, and honestly? It’s about time someone shook up the system.

Because here’s the reality:
Fertility medications can cost thousands of dollars per cycle.

And for many patients, those prices have been the biggest barrier to building a family.

So when a company steps in with transparent pricing and dramatically lower costs, it doesn’t just save money—it opens doors to care that were previously closed.

Kudos to Costco for doing what the healthcare system has struggled to do:
make fertility treatment more accessible.

Now the real question is…
Why did it take a wholesale retailer to do it?

is the real MVP!

03/08/2026

Happy International Women’s Day to the women doing all the things.

Running businesses.
Running households.
Running entire group chats and family calendars.

The visible work? Incredible.

The invisible work? Legendary.

Today we celebrate women.

But celebration alone isn’t enough.

We must demand:

✨ Safer spaces for women
✨ Equal pay
✨ Representation in politics and leadership
✨ Justice and accountability for violence against women

Because empowering women isn’t a slogan — it’s policy, protection, and opportunity.

To every woman carrying the visible and invisible load:

We see you.
We celebrate you.
And we’re still pushing forward.

Happy International Women’s Day

03/06/2026

Let me say what grown folks been knowing 👇🏾
People love to pull out the N-word like it’s a weapon. Like saying it is gonna shatter somebody’s whole world. Honey, please. 😂

I grew up in a Black household. My family prepared me for all your drama before I even stepped out the door so there isn't anything you can say that's ever going to tilt my crown.

What’s actually wild is how these same people hide behind shadow accounts and burner pages — no name, no face, no accountability — feeling BOLD enough to attack someone’s race, culture, and identity from behind a cartoon avatar. 🐸

If you don't like us stay out of our conversations, our music, our hair, our vernacular, our restaurants, our business, our communities.

You don’t have the courage to say it with your chest, but you want credit for the damage? Nah. I'm not the one.

I'll spare you the lashing you deserve, but recognize the next black person you call this might not be as kind.

Here’s the truth: words only have the power YOU give them and you will not get any of my magic today or any day!

Have a blessed day!

06/05/2025