{"id":1499,"date":"2022-04-24T19:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2022-04-24T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:43:48","slug":"merichel-almonte-discussion-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/2022\/04\/24\/merichel-almonte-discussion-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Merichel Almonte, Discussion 12."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the story &#8220;Birth Story&#8221; by Dana-Ain Davis. It is related about LeCont\u00e9&#8217;s birth story that she is a woman of dark skin color. She argues in the poem that she made to show her experience was &#8220;getting up every two hours to feed<br>to take a new test night nurses not good nurses Press my breasts hard press my arms hard begging for my milk and my blood such a sacrifice I want to go home I want to go make a home Hospitals are not homes.&#8221; This illustrates how LeCont\u00e9 she had to be induced and her daughter was born four weeks early, which is something risky for both her and the baby, who must be more careful because anything can happen, but in the hospital they did not treat her as they should because they had to be more delicate and pay more attention to both of them, I assure you that if it were a white woman, they put her in a wheelchair, they put a nurse for her alone and they are helping her with the care of the baby more often, but since she was black, the doctors would say that she she can do it alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video for &#8220;Period, the End of Sentence&#8221;. It shows how a girl had to drop out of school because she couldn&#8217;t find a way during her period and it was something very complicated in terms of her religion because she was from India and they don&#8217;t talk about those issues because they see it as something bad, very intimate and like a taboo. She had to give up what she wanted because of social oppression. However, I feel very good for them because despite everything they get ahead, they do creative things so that women can progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the story &#8220;Birth Story&#8221; by Dana-Ain Davis. It is related about LeCont\u00e9&#8217;s birth story that she is a woman of dark skin color. She argues in the poem that she made to show her experience was &#8220;getting up every two hours to feedto take a new test night nurses not good nurses Press my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}