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Masculine Birth Ritual

Release Date: 09/15/2018

E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came show art E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came

Masculine Birth Ritual

Our final episode is an interview with new Papa, yoga and Buddhism teacher Jacoby Ballard. We talk about the Germination Proclamation he and their partner put out to friends and family, gender and parenting, and preparing to welcome whatever being emerged during birth. 

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Masculine Birth Ritual

In this interview, Rachel L. Kaplan and I talk about their experience with preterm birth and parenting in the NICU . Rachel is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and takes off the professor hat to describe some of the personal challenges of a traumatic preterm birth followed by three weeks in the San Francisco Kaiser NICU.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

Our interview today is with Amanda Hayden. Amanda is a certified lactation counselor, social worker, and full-spectrum labor & postpartum doula practicing with the NYC Doula Collective. She provides counseling and programming support for trans and gender-non-conforming people who are family-building. We talk about the personal complexity of gender and how they approach ritual and support work with trans and GNC pregnant people and families.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

In E13 I talk with Charlie King-Miller about Charlie's experience giving birth in a hospital setting, trying to get listed as "father" on his baby's birth certificate in Colorado, and how he navigated care when he felt that providers weren't listening. 

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E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power show art E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power

Masculine Birth Ritual

In E12 I talk with Greta LaFleur. Greta is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. They're the author of a book called The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. In this conversation, we talk about western medical ideas about gender and birth, how MoC people are found (or not) in the colonial archives, how legacies of white supremacy and violence are tied to white genderqueer AFAB masculinities, and the way sex and gender were understood in the 18th-century colonial U.S.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

In this interview, Rae Goodman-Lucker and I talk about his experiences preparing for pregnancy and birthing two children. She shares her struggle to get doctors to believe the severity of his pregnancy fatigue, how he planned a community ceremony in preparation for pregnancy, and his perspectives on pain management during birth.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

Takeya Trayer is an artist, mommy of three children, a teacher, and the author of a children's book "My mommy is my Daddy." We talk about her homebirth, her community's response to pregnancy, how she exited homelessness while parenting two small children, and her series of paintings that feature Black and Indigenous MoC pregnant, nursing, and nurturing figures, and her children's book. Takeya's work: takeyaart.com.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

In episode 9 I talk with Miriam Zoila Pérez, the author of the Radical Doula Guide and a reporter that writes about the impacts of racism on birth and health outcomes.

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Masculine Birth Ritual

In Episode 8 we talk with J Carroll about their experience of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. J is a transmasculine, nonbinary, queer single parent by choice. In this episode, J and I talk about embodiment, how they were supported by their queer community and their family of origin after birth, and how gender influences parenting culture when you're nonbinary.

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E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux show art E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux

Masculine Birth Ritual

Midwife Sara Flores-Boudreaux joins us for Part 2 of a conversation about supporting MoC two-spirit, queer, trans, and genderqueer people in birth, wellness, and life. We talk about white supremacy, what she's learned about body sovereignty from MoC people, the opportunity for rituals in the model of midwife care, and the relationship between ritual and cultural connection to ancestry and tradition.

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The interview today is with Vanya Hollis, a butch birth parent and high school science teacher. We talk about gender, conception, challenges in lactation, the politics of biological sex and the “need” for people to know, and parasites of the chosen variety. We also dig into feelings about queer community ethos vs. her and her partner’s social experience of having a new baby. 

 

Resources mentioned in the show today include:

The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian Conception and Birth by Stephanie Brill (Book)

 

Music for this episode:

“Detroit” by Great White Buffalo

“Part-Time Lover” by the Undynamic Pop Experiment

 

A full transcription of the show can be found at:

https://www.masculinebirthritual.com/show-notes-transcribed-episodes