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4 Yale J.L. & Feminism 147 (1991-1992)
Empowerment through Wellness

handle is hein.journals/yjfem4 and id is 153 raw text is: Empowerment Through Wellness Byllye Averyt Thanks for giving yourself a hand because you're hanging in there pretty good. My share of this thing this afternoon will be in a real different kind of fashion, so kind of change over to the other side of your brain. And let's see if we can work around a topic a little more personal. Because you're future leaders here. You're the ones that are going to help get rid of some of those old white men that you've been hearing about. Because I think that this is the way we have to go. And I'm glad to know that fifty percent of law school students are women. And that makes me feel good, and we're moving on to doctors. You know, we got it. I want to share with you a little bit about the work that I've been doing with National Black Women's Health Project, and how we have come to form perspectives around reproductive health, and some of the ways in which you as individuals can work. Don't let me forget to tell you about our new office in Washington. I've been talking to a lot of people, and we could use some help with that. And I'll try to share a little bit of what the dialogue has been among us as women of color. I got started at this in 1974, when three of us decided to set up the Women's Health Center in Gainesville, Florida. We had already been involved in helping women get abortions, by them going up to New York. And when white women came in, we'd give them a telephone number to go to New York and get abortions. This was the early seventies. But when a black woman came in, we'd try to give her the phone number and she'd say, That's not what I need, I need money to get to New York, I need somewhere to stay, I need money for the abortion, et cetera, et cetera. After that, we really learned t Byllye Avery, Founding President of the National Black Women's Health Project since its inception in 1981, has been a women's health care activist for 20 years. Ms. Avery co-founded the Gainesville Women's Health Center and Birthplace, an alternative birthing center in Gainesville, Florida. Awards she has received include the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Social Contribution in 1989, the YWCA Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA of Greater Atlanta in 1990, and the Ortho 21st Century Women Award sponsored by the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation in 1991. The National Black Women's Health Project is a non-profit organization committed to defining, promoting, and maintaining the physical, mental and emotional well-being of African-American women. A dreamer, visionary, and grassroots realist, Byllye Avery has combined activism and social responsibility in developing a national forum for the exploration of health issues of African- American women, the gathering and documenting of African-American women's health experiences in America, and the provision of a supportive atmosphere for African-American women. This article is a transcript of Ms. Avery's presentation at the Feminism in the 90s: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice Conference. Ms. Avery participated on a panel on Reproductive Issues. Copyright 0 1991 by the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism

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