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2025 Black Feminism and Health Article List

Black Feminist/Feminism

• Black Women's Experiences Accessing Health Care and Law Enforcement After Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Pilot Study

• Trauma and Activism: Using a Postcolonial Feminist Lens to Understand the Experiences of Service Providers Who Support Racialized Immigrant Women's Mental Health and Wellbeing.

• Mapping fertility trajectories: An endarkened narrative inquiry of Black women's fertility experiences and pathways through infertility treatment.

• "I have to resist simply to exist": Black Physician Trainees' Experiences of Professional Resistance.

• Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine.

• Racialized body dissatisfaction in Black women: development of the Black feminist model of body image.

• [A look at the potential of the Social Sciences and Humanities to face the challenges facing Public Health].

• "It's an honor to be in this body": A Black feminist grounded theory of embodiment through yoga among Black womxn.

• Rapping about pleasure: the role of Black women's rap music in shaping Black women's sexual attitudes.

• Healing Outside of a Doctor's Office: Advancing Reproductive Wellness Through Storytelling in the Dobbs Era.

• Weathering the Storm: Exploring the Use of the Strong Black Woman Role in the Coping Strategies of Black Women Survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

• Are You Serious? The Absurdity of Policies Defining Two Sexes … Banning One and Erasing Others!

• 'I Want People to Know out There, Just How Many Caregivers Struggle Between Work and Home': Feminist Intersectional Research Exploring Caregiving Lived Experiences in New Zealand.

• Discriminatory Practices in the German Mental Healthcare System: An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study.

• Reimagining Black maternal health narratives: Embracing a Vitality Framework for joy, liberation, and healing.

• Health Equity Through Black Feminist Healing: A Narrative Review on the Contributions of Black Womxn to Integrative Medicine.

• Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain.

• Barriers and Facilitators of Digital Health Use for Self-Management of Hypertensive Disorders by Black Pregnant Women.

• Applying Critical Feminist and Critical Race Theory to Address the Cultural and Financial Needs of Black/African American Women With Cancer: A Narrative Review.

• Social movements and the Whitlam-initiated community health movement in Australia.

• Geographies of reproductive justice.

• The Unheeded Layers of Health Inequity: Visible Minority and Intersectionality

• Queering Studies of Health and Bodily Experience: An Example From the Transgender Resilience and Health Study.

• Beyond Strength: The Paradox of the Strong Black Woman in Nursing and Leadership.

• "I'm someone who makes sense to my therapist, without me needing to contort myself": A therapeutic dyad study with queer and/or trans Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color and their therapists.

• Embodied experiences of race-based traumatic stress and the journey towards black joy.

• Redefining Strength: Challenging the Strong Black Woman Stereotype in Nursing Education and Leadership.

• Reimagining open science for global health: Epistemic power and the pursuit of health equity.

• "I Feel Like a Lot of Black Women Don't Seek Preconception Health." Qualitative Findings of Preconception Health among Young Black Women in the United States.

• Medical gendered racism and Black women's experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA - A conceptual exploration.

• "I dream of an island": Black joy, storytelling and the art of refusal. Creative methodologies and decolonial praxis in higher education.

• Methodological reflections from a research project on the mental health of Black youth.

• The Stories We Tell: Black Women's Narratives of Agency, (Dis)Respect, and Resistance During Prenatal Care.

• Reimagining the Future of Reproduction from a Black Queer Lens: An Art-Based Approach to the Study of Reproductive Health Care.

• Cultural Adaptation of the Mothers and Babies Online Course for Black Mothers with Preterm Infants: A Delphi Study.

• The nonbinary god: Disaggregating spirituality and Christian religiosity among nonbinary Black womxn (NBBW).

• Cervical cancer prevention behaviors in young Black women.

• 'I Want People to Know out There, Just How Many Caregivers Struggle Between Work and Home': Feminist Intersectional Research Exploring Caregiving Lived Experiences in New Zealand.

• Development and Preliminary Validation of a Screening Tool for Race-Related Psychological Stress in Black Pregnant Women.

• The student opportunities for AIDS/HIV research program: promoting public health leadership and transformation for undergraduate students through a principles-driven, cohort-based model.

• A Framework for Applied Intersectionality Research (FAIR): Reframing Intersectionality as a Tool to Advance Health Equity and Social Justice Action, Not Just Empirical Research.

• Unearthing Mother-Midwives: Black Women's Hidden Legacy in Canadian Maternal Care.

• Surviving in the midst of 'Nowhere': Disrupting the conceptualisation of a maternity care desert.

• Story Circles of Black Doulas, Cultural Brokers for Birthing People in Healthcare.

• Naturalistic psychedelic experiences and gender-based self-acceptance in transgender and gender-expansive people.

• The CHOICES Black Midwifery Fellowship: An Innovative Model for Training Midwives in Reproductive Justice and Community-Centered Care.

• Reconstructing trust in preventive care: Black women's perspectives on equity-centered, cervical cancer interventions.

• Black Women's Perceptions of the Challenges Surrounding Cervical Cancer Screening in the United States.

• Stress-induced developmental plasticity and spontaneous preterm birth: A justice-oriented eco-evo-devo review.

• Imposter Syndrome: A Reflective Discourse into the Experiences of Canadian Black Nurses through Art.

• Institutions of Care: A Qualitative Study with Ancestral Black Nova Scotian Nurses in Healthcare.

• Looking into the black mirror of the overdose crisis: Assessing the harms of collaborative surveillance technologies in the United States response.

• In Their Own Voices: A Critical Narrative Review of Black Women Faculty Members' First-Person Accounts of Racial Trauma Across Higher Education.

• Violent Legacies, New Threats: Protecting Black Motherhood in the Age of Artificial Womb Technology.

• Pathways to Resistance: Theorizing Trauma and Women's Use of Force in Intimate Relationships.

• An act of political warfare: Self-care prioritization strategies of older African-American women with type 2 diabetes.

• What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There: Critical History in Radical Black Re-imaginations of Canadian Nursing Histories.

• Exploring the barriers to cervical screening and perspectives on new self-sampling methods amongst under-served groups.

• A phenomenological analysis of the psychological impact of Black women environmental activists' resistance to environmental racism.

• Applying the Intersectionality Lens to Understand Minority Ethnic Women's Experiences of the Breast Cancer Care Pathway in England: A Qualitative Interview Study.

• Can Mindfulness-Based Interventions Be Used to Treat PTSD-derived GI Disruptions in Black Women? A Review of Current Literature.

• Intimate partner violence among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women students on campuses in South Africa: a qualitative study exploring context, drivers, and impacts.

• "It Affected Me so Much That I Even Had to Tie My Tubes": The Role of Patient-Provider Communication on Black Women's Perceptions of Pregnancy Risk.

• "People already don't know what the fuck i'm saying": Nonbinary Black womxn perspectives on sharing their gendered-racial identity.

• "The world is not a safe place": Representations of emotional distress, coping, and survival among young adults in South Africa.

• The power with us: experiences of resisting oppression among Black women physicians in academic medicine.    

Womanism/Womanist

• Conceptualizing Black Feminist-Womanist Gerontology: applying a critical framework for research on Black women in menopause