Pregnancy, Birth, and the Need for Global Harm Reduction

Jesi Taylor
7 min readMar 26, 2020

CW: Mention of pregnancy loss, state violence, miscarriage, death

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When I think back to the fear, embarrassment, and pain I felt during my labor and delivery nearly two years ago, I let memories involving my incredibly loving and supportive birth team wash over me, the closest thing to Lethe to drown out the scars of the trauma.

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Jesi Taylor

NYC-based writer-archivist-researcher whose work covers Genocide Studies, Repro + Enviro Justice, Discard Studies, and Political Ecology of Waste. @moontwerk