Creative work demonstrates the role of art in promoting health equity in perinatal care, suggesting new avenues for improvement.
Radical imagination is required to cultivate equitable and just systems that offer optimal perinatal care within our communities. The practice of art is a mechanism for exploring and envisioning an equitable and just future—a future where pregnant capable people and their families can flourish. This creative work submission includes a mixed media drawing, entitled Uncaged , that explores the process of nondominant hand drawing as a tool for reducing self-criticism, accessing creativity and emotion, and reestablishing (re)connection to intuition. In the artist statement, the artist discusses the effects of this practice on her work in promoting health equity in perinatal care as a midwifery/women's health nurse practitioner (WHNP) educator and leader.
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