Why and How I Am Choosing to Be a Mother

Despite the all-too-real threat of maternal mortality, medical racism, and homophobia, I’m ready to be a Black, queer mom

Charlene Carruthers
ZORA
Published in
5 min readJun 12, 2019

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WWhen I’m making a choice about my own body, I often feel as if there are five other people in the room. My decision to pursue motherhood as a thirtysomething Black queer woman has been no…

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