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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 27/10/2025

Hugely looking forward to discussing UK maternity care, women's bodies, birth trauma & how we make things better for women with two deeply courageous campaigners & authors, former MP Theo Clarke & NHS midwife @leahhazard.bsky.social. 📆 Sun 9 Nov, 10.30am 📍 Stroud 🎟️ @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Thrilled to be supporting the vital work of Birth Companions, an org doing vital research and advocacy for women facing severe inequity in early motherhood.

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London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

📔 Do you have an idea for a non-fiction book but don’t know where to start? Join us for a FREE, online workshop - Writing Non-Fiction: How to Ask the Right Questions with Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social Wed 17 Sep @7pm, Online. Tickets tinyurl.com/2dwc96zu

The image is blue poster with white curves and lines in the top right and bottom left corner. The top of the poster has three logos: ‘Spread the Word,’ ‘wellcome collection,’ and ‘Wellcome Collection Non-Ficition Awards.’ ‘Leah Hazard’ is printed in black front. Underneath, in white font, reads ‘Bestselling author of Hard Pushed and Womb,’ ‘Writing Non – Fiction,’ ‘How to Ask the Right Questions,’ ‘17 Sep, 7pm, online’ and ‘Book your free place https://tinyurl.com/2dwc96zu’ On the right is a picture of Leah Hazard – a white woman with brown hair and a ‘free’ banner. On the footer reads ‘This free event is part of the public programme for the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards.’ On the left is ‘spreadtheword.org.uk’ and ‘@spreadthewordwriters.’

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 01/07/2025

Despite the NHS being founded on the principle of equitable treatment, discrimination remains rife. The NHS must tackle #racism and #sexism for patients, staff, and society www.bmj.com/content/390/... @katewomersley.com ‪@ritaissa.bsky.social @leahhazard.bsky.social @yvc58.bsky.social

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Very proud to have co-authored this sweeping review of racism and sexism in the NHS. It’s essential for maternity to get a seat at this table, as the perinatal journey affects lifelong individual and public health. Thank you to @bmj.com and my esteemed co-authors.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I welcome this long overdue news and hope (with some cynicism) that the changes suggested by this investigation will result in meaningful, well resourced action. Maternal health = public health. Literally everyone is born. We all deserve better than this system in its current state of crisis.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A pleasure to contribute to ‘Ideas for Keir’ in @newstatesman.com - let’s hope he reads and heeds.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

During my BlueSky break, this happened: Audible released my fiction debut, a bittersweet, dysfunctional love story about two doctors trying to connect despite the pressures of a broken system… …narrated by the phenomenal Jessie Buckley. I’m told it’s quite good! www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Anato...

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Karina Vazirova @karinavazirova.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Midwifery is one of the oldest professions and the only profession designed solely to support women. New episode with @leahhazard.bsky.social, a practising midwife, activist, and award-winning author of "Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began." open.substack.com/pub/themothe...

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Leah Hazard - Midwifery and The Future of Birth

Everyone is born.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 21/05/2025

Abortion law reform urgently needed in the UK, but practice heading in the opposite direction with phone searching and police warrants. @leahhazard.bsky.social shares her worries for women leahhazard.substack.com/p/why-theres...

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Why there's only one reason to search a woman's phone

And what midwives have to do with it

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My latest newsletter about *that* time of the year… open.substack.com/pub/leahhaza...

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The Mother's Day Industrial Complex

Are you buying it?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 10/03/2025

You can still register for today's @nihr.bsky.social Sex & Gender in Medical Research launch event. It's a landmark that NIHR is adopting MESSAGE recommendations, and on IWD! I will be speaking about the project, alongside @ccriadoperez.bsky.social & Dame Lesley Regan. web.cvent.com/event/c9ea86...

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Last year I went to Berlin to film a documentary about the diagnostic potential of period blood - one of the many topics in my book, Womb. The link is now up on Arte TV. Please enjoy this très chic clip from the French-dubbed version. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

We’re breaking from our usual release schedule to bring you a special episode for International Women’s Day! In this episode, we welcome midwife, award-winning author, and women's health advocate @leahhazard.bsky.social. Beyond the Knife is available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

When things are violently laid bare it feels destabilising. Terrifying. Impossible to believe what you're witnessing. Shock is understandable - and likely the point. Use your favoured techniques to calm, connect, process, then collectively resist. All are achievable actions and vital to resistance.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

As someone with both Czech and Ukrainian grandparents, I am, as the kids say, in my feelings rn.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This toxic patriarchy is only interested in a woman’s body if there’s a p*nis going in or a baby coming out. They’re proving it every day.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Idiot reporter to President Zelenskyy: "Why don't you wear a suit?" President Zelenskyy’s response to idiot reporter: "I will wear costume after this war will finish." Boom. 🔥

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

More Republicans now believe that women should return to their traditional roles in society
As of November 2024, almost half of Republican men agree, up from 28 percent in 2022.
50% agree
48%
Republican men
37%
Republican women
25%
Democratic men
17%
Democratic women
11%
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2018
2020
2022
Source: Views of the Electorate Research Survey
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library

Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 26/02/2025

"This is not a physically or emotionally sustainable career anymore... And that’s pretty sad. Because people will keep on having babies. But who will be there to catch them?" @leah @leahhazard.bsky.social's substack for anyone worrying about women's health leahhazard.substack.com/p/still-got-...

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Still got it

My (new) adventures in midwifery

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 20/02/2025

When I was in residency I had to watch a teenager and her parents brought to tears when she learned that she had Turner Syndrome (XO). But Nancy Mace doesn't mind being horribly cruel.

A tweet from Nancy Mace:

You either have XX or XY chromosomes.

Those are the options.

Hold the line.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I became a midwife in 2013 and published this book in 2019. We’re both still pushing on…

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ghoulish. Like, the ghoulish-est. Truly.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A big bounce in new followers - starter pack? Something else? Who knows! Anyway, welcome, and enjoy some recent writing: open.substack.com/pub/leahhaza...

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Why I gave up my US citizenship...

...and why I'm going back.

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Mrs. Trav @mrstrav.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Time to tank AirBnB 📉

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

PrEP only if you’re making/feeding a baby?? This is the weirdest, most misguided, most pernicious hybrid of pronatalism and homophobia that I’ve ever seen.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION Newspeak, it should not need translation to those who have encountered the grifters and pseudo-science speak on social media platforms. It isn't good and spells the end of evidence-based healthcare. www.whitehouse.gov/p... 1/10

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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Another day of reckoning for maternity. Delays in urgent treatment, lack of joined-up care…how many more women and babies have to die before the system is overhauled from the ground up?

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I wrote about the long American tradition of reproductive eugenics/reprocide in my book, Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began. Looks like we’re back to the bad old days of Buck v Bell…

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thinking about how to support repro health colleagues in USA. If you’re a college or HS teacher whose students would welcome a virtual chat about working in repro health and advocacy, DM me. I have 20+yrs experience and 2 bestselling books to share. I promise to use allll the banned words.

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Slightly unhinged thread but OK: I’m a midwife, so I can help ensure the safe continuation of humanity. Does that count?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/02/2025

American medics and scientists, come to the UK where @nihr.bsky.social has made consideration of equity and diversity a *condition* of funding.

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Haven’t found all the political commentators you used to follow on Twitter? We made a list for you go.bsky.app/FpbsVro

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

À propos of *events*, my latest newsletter is about why I renounced my US citizenship during the last Trump regime, how I’m feeling about it now, and why I’m going back. open.substack.com/pub/leahhaza...

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Why I gave up my US citizenship...

...and why I'm going back.

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Why I gave up my US citizenship...

...and why I'm going back.

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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

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ACOG Endorsed

The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

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Mx. Robbie Bobbie Berta Boeing @captainbobbie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As Mr Rogers said, always look for the helpers.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 31/01/2025

And here are just a few of the pages that used to be there but are now gone, including: -including women and minorities in clinical research -health equity info -maternal health info -sex as a biological variable in research

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 31/01/2025

I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

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ORWH Home

Established in 1990, the Office of Research on Women's Health serves as the focal point for women's health research at the National Institutes of Health

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Resurfacing in the light of day: People should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, flu, covid, reproductive health...

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Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

First they came for the ducks…

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don’t know who needs to know this but mifepristone has a 4-5 year shelf life As someone with teenage daughters, I plan on keeping an emergency supply for the worst-case scenario Do with this information what you will

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