Hirut Melaku, IBCLC ::ሂሩት::

🔥 January Calabash Cafe Injera Epistemology: An Indigenous Ethiopian Feminist Framework A Presentation & Discussion Free for QMNC members→swiy.co/GCf5 #CalabashCafe #QMNC #BirthResearch Presented by: @Micknai with guest moderator Melissa Cheyney @TheUpliftLab

an offering, a nuanced perspective, grounded in my queer Ethiopian-Jewish embodied wisdom. hope that you see parts of you reflected back ‘I unapologetically choose love’: A queer Ethiopian-Jewish woman’s view healthydebate.ca/2023/11/topic/… via @HealthyDebate

I am speaking at ISRHML Conference 2022. Please checkout the details of my talk at: whova.com/xems/apis/open…

BIRTHING WHILE BLACK DURING COVID-19 a national audio-visual project Do you have a story to share? I'm listening! hirut.org/covid-19

@YorkUPresident Concerned Black student wants to know @YUGSA84 @YorkUnews

Have worries or questions about feeding your baby during #COVID19 ? We have suggestions & resources w/ more to come: tiny.cc/mlrolz #breastfeeding #iycfe

great advice from @GovCanHealth "no evidence of mother-to-child transmission through childbirth when the mother gets COVID-19...unlikely that COVID-19 can be transmitted while breastfeeding"

@CBCMontreal unacceptable! why are they not respecting the recommendations of the WHO?this policy disproportionately impactS marginalized families- FYI: institutional racism and health inequity do not go away during a pandemic

No spouses, doulahs allowed on Jewish General Hospital's maternity ward for duration of pandemic ift.tt/2X9xZLE

@Justin_Ling appreciate your intervention this morning! i do reproductive justice advocacy- do you know what is going on with pregnant and lactating women in detention centers and their babies? can't seem to get an answer. gonna DM you

Doing my broken record thing, I asked the Prime Minister, again, why Ottawa is still locking up migrants and non-violent offenders — and forcing corrections officers to go to work — amidst a pandemic. I didn't get an answer.

@YIbukun @ProteanIntl @FictionsofHaiti @DrEricaJohnson @CindyErmus @SharonStrocchia @MaddenAmanda @school_tales @LaviniaMaddalu1 @xtinaramos81 @evelynwelch2013 @jenheemstra @medievalatX @egaffney4 @Handwerkwissen @murphyhs2019 @DrMMacLeod @kacytillman @JessicaMDeWitt @CorinneGressang @Crystallynnweb @AGCarmichael1 @AnneHardgrove @jackiantonovich @monicaMedHist @TabitaSurge @MeghanKRoberts @elizabethdean82 @ashleyrattner @DannaAgmon @drhonor @Lady_Historian @Laprofmme @SKayLawton @JuliaGaffield @ofeibeaq @maffaul @SimiDos @GFUniforms @AmogelangMbatha @misanrewane @IerJonathan @lolashoneyin @chitranagarajan @AlakeTope @Olurounbi @Winnie_Byanyima @AmakaAnku @alexis_ok seeing this just now! <3 back to you @YIbukun

@ProteanIntl @FictionsofHaiti @DrEricaJohnson @CindyErmus @SharonStrocchia @MaddenAmanda @school_tales @LaviniaMaddalu1 @xtinaramos81 @evelynwelch2013 @jenheemstra @medievalatX @egaffney4 @Handwerkwissen @murphyhs2019 @DrMMacLeod @kacytillman @JessicaMDeWitt @CorinneGressang @Crystallynnweb @AGCarmichael1 @AnneHardgrove @jackiantonovich @monicaMedHist @TabitaSurge @MeghanKRoberts @elizabethdean82 @ashleyrattner @DannaAgmon @drhonor @Lady_Historian @Laprofmme @SKayLawton @JuliaGaffield Thanks, Sis! And thoughts for some other amazing women who inspire, me @ofeibeaq @maffaul @Simidos @GFUniforms @AmogelangMbatha @misanrewane @IerJonathan @lolashoneyin @chitranagarajan @AlakeTope @Olurounbi @Winnie_Byanyima @AmakaAnku @alexis_ok @justbreastfed @HelenNyambura

LISTEN: Hirut Melaku and Rachel Zellers are part of the Third Eye Collective, a group of Black women mostly based in Montreal who are working to develop transformative justice approaches for responding to sexual and gendered violence. rabble.ca/podcasts/shows…

@SahleWorkZewde selam:) looking forward to hearing you speak today!Would 😍to spend a few min with you

@Katja_Iversen @MeetVancouver @VancouverSun @CityofVancouver @jjhorgan @kennedystewart @CanadaDev @Women_Canada @CanadaWD2019 @MaryamMonsef @humanmilknews and @justbreastfed are coming from Edmonton and Toronto, Canada!

Just submitted my video on why #genderequality matters to me in support of #WeDeliver2019! Dare you to do the same ;) ourstories.wedeliver2019.ca/watch/why-gend…

Mother's day trauma.I have every intention of submitting to the UN Violence Against Women experience of black women in KKKanada.Why not do the same?submissions on mistreatment&violence against wmn during reproductive health care&facility-based child birth ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Wome…

Speaking now: Hirut Melaku on unpacking emergency responses in 2017 - Haitian refugees expelled from US who walked from New York to Canada #BFfem18

Hirut Melaku sharing her experience in supporting a mother who birthed shortly after seeking asylum in Canada: heart-wrenching story of #obstetricviolence & failures to support dyad #bffem18