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Black Women Deserve...

A Policy BluePrint for Black Women’s Health in Wisconsin

Black Women Deserve...

Black Women Deserve... is a Policy BluePrint for Black Women’s Health in Wisconsin serving as a roadmap and tool to engage and mobilize Black Women and Allies to address our state’s persistent and stagnant racial health disparities impacting Black women, children and families. 

Our Policy Blueprint for Black Women’s Health will be a roadmap toward a bold new path that confronts the unacceptable racial inequities and structural inequality that have compromised the well-being of Black women and our families in Wisconsin for far too long. It will mobilize Black women and allies for short-term, tangible gains while advancing a powerful vision for a Wisconsin that is yet to exist--one where Black women and our children and families thrive as the norm, not the exception.

We know that in order to achieve this, we must build Black women’s capacity to lead the change we need, and to collaborate in meaningful ways with partners across many sectors to achieve long-term transformational change.

The Preamble to our policy blueprint, Black Women Deserve..., offers 9 pillars that will shape our statewide engagement, advocacy, and actions. We offer this preamble as a first step in a powerful direction of collaboration towards advocating for sustained investments in the lives of Black Women and our families. We deeply believe that Wisconsin must be the forerunner in advancing health equity; and this next decade is our chance to make a significant breakthrough.

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Black Women Deserve...

Improving Black Women's Health in Wisconsin: A Preamble to The Foundation for Black Women's Wellness Policy Blueprint

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Published September 24, 2021

Our Pillars

In the spirit, strength, resilience, and perseverance of generations of Black women, mothers, workers, and freedom fighters, past and present, we declare that Black Women Deserve:

1

Economic Security

2

Safe & Affordable Healthcare

3

Equal Rights

4

Equal Justice

5

Safe & Healthy Communities

6

Environmental Justice

7

Quality Education

8

Equal Opportunity

9

Freedom

Our Pillars

In the spirit, strength, resilience, and perseverance of generations of Black women, mothers, workers, and freedom fighters, past and present, we declare that Black Women Deserve:

1

Economic Security

Economic Security

Black women deserve the tools to build economic security for ourselves and our families. We deserve the ability to secure our essential needs sustainably and with dignity. Black women deserve family-supporting wages, economic stability, upward mobility, and the means to build generational wealth.
2

Safe & Affordable Healthcare

Safe & Affordable Healthcare

Black women deserve to live long, healthy lives. We deserve safe, humane, affordable, and quality care that protects and preserves our lives, treats us with dignity and respect, and honors our bodily autonomy. Black women deserve to be heard and believed as experts of our bodies and empowered in our care.
3

Equal Rights

Equal Rights

Black women deserve to live our lives free from disadvantage, stereotyping, prejudice or discrimination. Black women deserve for our basic human rights and civil rights to be protected and recognized in the form of representation and legislation. Black women deserve a democracy where we are able to freely cast our vote in districts that fairly represent our community.
4

Equal Justice

Equal Justice

Black women deserve a world where race, gender and class are not barriers to justice. We deserve policies and practices to deliver on their commitment and promise of equal treatment. Black women deserve a reimagined justice system that is fair, accessible, and worthy of our trust.
5

Safe & Healthy Communities

Safe & Healthy Communities

Black Women deserve safety within our homes, neighborhoods, and interactions with the state. We deserve investments in a full range of health, social, and natural resources that maintain and advance a high quality of life.  Black women deserve vibrant and beautiful communities and spaces that inspire joy, belonging, and flourishing health.
6

Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

Black women deserve clean and safe environments in which to live, learn, work, and to raise our children and families. We deserve neighborhoods free of exposure to toxins, hazards, and neglect. Black women deserve to live in communities that are prioritized, maintained, resourced, and protected within city, county, and state infrastructure.
7

Quality Education

Quality Education

Black women deserve an educational system that works for our children and families. We deserve schools that see our children as innately capable and brilliant learners, and that nurture, value, and enrich their natural gifts. Black women and our children deserve pathways to gain the social, economic, cultural, and political capital necessary to achieve success in life and work.
8

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity

Black women deserve to work, to earn, to advance, to own, to build wealth, and to pass that wealth on to our children and families. Black women deserve equal opportunity to everything that enables us to thrive, and to pursue our dreams and aspirations without race, gender and class barriers.
9

Freedom

Freedom

Black women deserve to be seen, heard, understood, and valued. Black Women deserve to be our free and full selves without having to monitor or censor our brilliance, our culture, our joy, or our physical traits. We deserve Freedom to move through the world just as we are.

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Adrianna

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Madison
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Wisconsin
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USA