Mary Church Terrell wrote openly about the grief of losing her baby. We’re taught her activism and civil rights work, but almost never this part. This is Black infertility history, too. Source: A Colored Woman in a White World.
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Day 5/28
Mary Church Terrell wrote about grief after losing her baby in words that still feel immediate.
This is Black infertility history too.
Not just medicine. Not just statistics.
But the private devastation, and the silence people expected women to carry.
Source: Mary Church Terrell, A Colored Woman in a White World
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Day 4/28
Black children are history, too.
So are the families still waiting.
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Black history includes the children. And the families still hoping for them.
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Day 3/28
“They tell me now if I had married dark men I would maybe had children.”
This is how infertility got tangled up with colorism, blame, and the stories people told Black women about their bodies.
Not medicine. Not facts.
Just judgment.
Source: Sophie D. Belle, Arkansas interview recorded 1937
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Day 3 of 28.
Black women were told infertility was about who we married — not our health.
Blame came easier than care. It still does.
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Under slavery, infertility wasn’t private. It could mean separation, sale, or punishment.
“Barren” is archival language — brutal, but part of the record.
Source: Berry Clay, Federal Writers’ Project (Georgia, 1936)
Day 2/28 — Black Infertility History
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Day 2/28
Under slavery, infertility was not private.
It could mean separation from your partner, sale, and punishment.
The word “barren” is archival language from the time.
It is brutal, and it is part of the record.
Source: Berry Clay, Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives (Georgia, 1936)
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Day 1/28: Something is changing.
Black women’s fertility rates dropped 11% between 2019 and 2023.
If you have ever wondered why so many people are struggling to conceive, this is part of the answer.
This is not sudden.
It is history.
Source: CDC / NCHS
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Starting February 1: one story a day for 28 days exploring the history of Black infertility, the grief, the silence, the science, and the ways we built family anyway. Follow for the full series. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInfertility #ReproductiveJustice #OshunGriot
28 Days of Black Infertility History.
Presented by Oshun Griot.
This February, I am posting one story a day about Black infertility.
The grief. The silence. The science. The survival. The ways we built family anyway.
Black infertility did not start trending.
It has a history.
And we deserve the full truth.
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A pregnancy announcement. A deportation. A Black midwife dead in childbirth. Same month. Same country. Sigh. Same America.
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Gives you the knowledge and resources you need fast.
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So much fertility information exists, but very little of it is made with people of color in mind.
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Knowledge is part of your strength too.
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There’s an unspoken belief that you have to be miserable the entire time you’re trying to build your family.
That’s not true.
Oshun Griot exists to remind people of color that joy, pleasure, and connection are allowed during this journey, not just after it ends.
You don’t have to earn softness.
You do not have to go through infertility alone.
You deserve a community that gets it, education that makes you feel empowered, and resources that help you exhale a little bit.
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Lean on your people.
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Cheers to no more (or not as many) lonely, isolated times going through infertility in 2026.
We got you ♥️
Happy New Year!
2025 is a wrap for Oshun Griot.
Year one down. Grateful and overwhelmed.
On to the next one.
