According to the CDC’s Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States 2023 , black women are 3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes compared to their white counterparts. These rates are a measure of how much value a society places on women’s lives. Not only this, but this further exposes our country’s deeper inequities such as barriers to healthcare accessibility, research funding, and state policies. Women Interrupted aims to spotlight the pressing issue of maternal mortality amongst women of color, mental health in communities of color, and health disparities and issues that are primarily affecting women. Not only do we want to address the contributing factors to these issues, but also highlight survival and prevention. Each and every one of us, women and men, play a role in protecting the lives of women. When we protect women, we uplift one another and reinforce our value. Women have the power to make authentic and diplomatic leaders in the workplace, we uplift children who power a creative and innovative future, members of communities, and economies flourish.

Our main objective is to educate our audience, provide a space for women to share their stories, as well as empower women across the world to take autonomy over their bodies. We believe knowing about your temple and the possible risk factors that arise due to genetics, demographics, and socioeconomic statuses is a human right. Our mission is rooted in the belief that healthcare must be compassionate, conscious, and accessible. We aim to cultivate a new generation of healthcare providers, individuals who are not only clinically skilled but emotionally attuned to the lived realities of those they serve. Equally, we seek to empower women, old and young, with the knowledge they need to advocate for themselves and others, because knowing how to be proactive in your physical and mental health is a fundamental right.

In this space, we value the voices of those often interrupted, often unheard. We highlight personal journeys through illness, recovery, and the too-often difficult path to accessing care. We examine encounters with healthcare workers, both the redemptive and the retraumatizing, and unravel the systems that leave many fighting not just disease, but injustice.

  We seek to provide resources and education, as these are the keys towards breaking the cycle of poverty and access to healthcare. Women Interrupted seeks to provide mental health resources for underserved communities and aims to promote new findings in research. We aim to address ways healthcare professionals can counteract implicit bias and how this affects the quality of their patients’ lives, and to reduce distrust in the medical system. 

Our work is intersectional. We explore how poverty, race, gender, and geography intertwine to shape health outcomes, acknowledging the stark realities faced by women of color, those from low-income white communities, and men of color alike. We are not afraid to ask hard questions about how history, systemic neglect, and medical bias continue to echo in exam rooms and emergency wards today.

Healthcare is something that we at Women Interrupted are passionate about, and we hope to share and inspire our audience to become more involved in their healthcare as well as to share with their friends and family. We want it to be noted that we are not healthcare professionals, but we do put in the work and time to seek out academic, science-based, research-based, and unbiased resources to support the information we share on our platforms. We also work and participate in healthcare environments with licensed healthcare professionals. Our organization hopes to encourage women and allies of women’s healthcare to share the resources and informational segments across all our platforms.