HX – Dixon reading

I was struck by the forced duality of midwifery in Mexico between working with the state and against it and its abusive practices. As demonstrated in the introduction and more particularly in chapter 3, this position places them in a delicate in-betweenness: people mistrust them when they actually do understand the plight rural indigenous women may have gone through at state hospitals and are trying to fight for a better management of systemic inequalities that victimize some women more than others. My follow-up question then would be how could midwives use social media to maybe surf their way into the global movement in favour of women’s health, to not only gain more legitimacy that way but also shed light on other women’s communities affected by systemic intersectional oppression and therefore be able to claim “doing global health”?