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Black Women’s Health & Reality TV: Using Black Popular Culture for Health Promotion
April 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeWednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 6:00 pm EST
In this conversation, Winfield discusses functions of Black popular culture as it relates to, depicts, and covers Black health issues. Black reality television often shares the complexities of Black realities and occasion includes Black women’s health as a part of its “edutainment” or cultural pedagogy. Put in context with of race, sex, health and class, we ask the question: who is able to share the health stories that impact Black women on large scales? What stories are they sharing and who does it impact? This discussion will focus primarily on the epidemic impacting almost 80% of African American women — uterine fibroids — using media examples seen on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta and Married to Medicine, and OWN’s Belle Collective.
About the speaker: Asha Winfield, M.A. is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University in the Department of Communication where she studies the stories of black individuals and groups occurring in the media, culture, and society.
These events is free and open to the public. They are a part of Blackness 360°: Art, Culture, Health, and Futures, a series of curated experiences designed to deepen knowledge about the multiplicity and complexity of Blackness and Black experiences. The series is organized by UF Black Affairs in partnership with its 2020-21 Faculty Fellow. Support provided by co-sponsors: UF Center for Arts Migration and Entrepreneurship, UF Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Center for Latin American Studies, and The Power Lab.