Masculine Birth Ritual

Masculine Birth Ritual is a podcast about Masculine of Center (MoC) queer and trans people nurturing life through pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The podcast features pregnancy and birth stories of people creating life outside the gender lines. We also engage in conversations with birth workers about best practices for working with MoC people and artists, researchers, and spiritual leaders about the collective imagination and histories of nurturing masculinities.

E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came 08/08/2019

E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/10829549

E 15 | Ask Those Questions 08/06/2019

E 15 | Ask Those Questions 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/10797827

E14 | Meeting People Where They're At 06/02/2019

E14 | Meeting People Where They're At 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/10016792

E13 | I Would Like It If You Would Listen 04/25/2019

E13 | I Would Like It If You Would Listen 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/9524837

E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power 03/18/2019

E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/9010205

E11 | It's Not Gender Weird, It's Just Weird 03/01/2019

E11 | It's Not Gender Weird, It's Just Weird 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/8793902

E10 | She Protected Her Children From the Bear: 02/15/2019

E10 | She Protected Her Children From the Bear: 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/8622551

E9 | Buffering the Impacts of Discrimination: 02/01/2019

E9 | Buffering the Impacts of Discrimination: 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/8411357

E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers: 01/15/2019

E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers: 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/8181431

E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux 12/01/2018

E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7762637

E6 | A Super Fierce Stance: 11/19/2018

E6 | A Super Fierce Stance: Today we are talking with Sara Flores-Boudreaux. She is a Mestiza Mujer Midwife that has been providing health, wellness, and birth care to Masculine of Center Queer, Trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people, primarily Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, for decades. Sara is a parent and also one of the Principal Authors of the Brown Bois Health Guide, Freeing Ourselves, a Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7619708

E5 | This Blessing Got Kind of Everywhere: 10/31/2018

E5 | This Blessing Got Kind of Everywhere: In Episode 5 Rabbi Elliot Kukla talks with us about Jewish birth rituals, Yiddish women's traditions surrounding fertility and birth, non-binary parenting, and the documentation of gender-queer, non-binary, and intersex people within the Jewish tradition. He is the first known ordained Trans Rabbi and is a nonbinary Papa to a 3-month-old baby. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7391234

E4 | People Didn't Know What to Do With Me: 10/16/2018

E4 | People Didn't Know What to Do With Me: In this interview, we talk with Ryan, a transmasculine birth parent, about how he felt during pregnancy and after birth. We talk about how a lack of transmasculine competency in most birth and post-birth services impacted his medical options and post-birth care, as well as how he felt not-seen, welcome, or fully supported within the community as a birth parent. He bravely shares with us the challenges of what happens when gender dysphoria intersects with pregnancy and birth. This conversation goes deep into some of the hard parts of birthing outside the lines. For show notes and transcription of this episode check out our website: https://www.masculinebirthritual.com/ /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7192157

E3 | Possibility Models for Parenthood: 10/01/2018

E3 | Possibility Models for Parenthood: Mac Brydum is a doula and a transman that is trying to conceive (TTC). In this interview, we discuss the role of the doula, particularly how they can support queer and transmasculine families. Mac talks about his hopes and dreams for pregnancy and birth, and we talk a lot about building a community that supports queer and trans parents and our kids. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7116114

E2| Grow Your Own Parasite! Get Pregnant!: 09/15/2018

E2| Grow Your Own Parasite! Get Pregnant!: 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. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/7043018

Episode 1| Introduction to Masculine Birth Ritual 09/01/2018

Episode 1| Introduction to Masculine Birth Ritual This episode is an introduction to why this podcast is talking with and about pregnancy, conception, and parenting within masculine of center queer and transgender communities. The host, Grover Wehman-Brown gives an introduction to herself and the motivations to start this project. /episode/index/show/masculinebirthritual/id/6996059

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