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Marinah identifies as an indigiqueer chicana daughter of a spiritual, artistic mother from Chihuahua, Mexico who taught her traditional medicine, a Chicano musician and Engineer father from the borderlands, and mother to indigenous mixed-race children and grandchildren.Marinah is the owner of Phoenix Midwife and the founder of Indigenous Birth, an umbrella organization for diverse advocacy and health justice projects which affirms the importance of traditional and indigenous midwives and assembles initiatives and coalitions nationally and internationally. She is also a sometime podcaster, public speaker and writer.Marinah has served as consultant, facilitator, board member, Executive Director, and midwife for health justice projects in the U.S, North America, Central America, and Uganda, facilitating policy initiatives on public health responses, indigenous/immigrant reproductive and primary healthcare access, education programs, birth center development, and workforce development.Marinah is a founding member of Phoenix Allies for Community Health, a free clinic primarily serving immigrant families, a direct result of her active street medic work. Marinah is the past president of the Midwives Alliance of North America, and worked in a dedicated coalition with national midwifery groups for United States Midwifery, Education, Regulation, and Association (USMERA).Marinah is a Culture of Health Leader, advisory board member for Birth Detroit, Team Leader for an all POC midwifery learning collaborative in Arizona through a project initiated by the Institute of Medicaid Innovation, working alongside native and indigenous immigrant communities on reclamation of birth sovereignty, and planning essential convenings for midwives and healers.Marinah is a practitioner in Somatic Experiencing, with advancing certification in the prenatal and perinatal period, as part of her dedication to traditional medicine and healing.Marinah is the past Director of Organizational Wellness with Birth Center Equity, and is currently under Fellowship.Marinah's current roles, besides the multiple projects of Indigenous Birth, focus primarily in facilitation with Breath of My Heart Birthplace, the only Native-led nonprofit free standing birth center in the United States, Center for Indigenous Midwifery, learning indigenous data collection in partnership with The Firelight Group, and working with her traditional teachers in Mexico learning traditional medicine, and creating artistic and medicinal resources.Website: https://www.indigenousbirth.org/Contact: info@indigenousbirth.org

Join us for the live chat during a #Deprogrammed with Keri Smith interview and discussion with Mary Lou Singleton today at 6pm CDT! Mary Lou Singleton is a mother, midwife, nurse practitioner and medical freedom activist. Her clinic, Enchanted Family Medicine, provides primary health care services to over 2000 patients in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary Lou has served on the boards of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, the Stop Patriarchy Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and the Women's Liberation Front. She has been speaking out against female erasure in midwifery since 2014 and is the author of an open letter to the Midwives Alliance of North America protesting the removal of the words "woman" and "mother" from the organization's core competencies for midwives documents. Mary Lou is firmly pro-choice in all aspects of medical care, including vaccination.

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity—drivers of our access to basic goods and services—rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire, making it one of the largest economic forces in the world.  In The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic (Stanford UP, 2021), Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire and its rapid intrusion into everyday life, focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for "Midwifing the Movement" from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016). Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Lifelong women's activist, mother, midwife, and family nurse practitioner Mary Lou Singleton joins me for the second time on the podcast, for a nuanced discussion on what women can expect in the face of abortion being criminalized and offers clarity on this highly politicized topic. We get into specific cases of women who faced life-threatening consequences and in some cases death, due to the State criminalizing abortion, including crimes committed against women who endured miscarriages of wanted pregnancies, the paradox of how many life forms thin themselves out, and the inhumane treatment of women by society, who place their babies up for adoption. We discuss medical totalitarianism, what we've learned about snitch culture over that past two years, period tracking apps, State surveillance of women's menstrual cycles throughout history, forced abortions, the harms of pharmaceutical contraception and the difficulty of trying to legislate morality. Mary Lou highlights what women currently have access to, how to start taking responsibility over our sexualities and bodies with fertility awareness methods, knowing the immediate signs of pregnancy, and sourcing necessary materials and herbs so that we and our sisters can maintain bodily sovereignty in the face of criminalization and surveillance culture. Mary Lou has served on the boards of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, the Stop Patriarchy Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and the Women's Liberation Front. She's sat alongside thousands of women in pregnancy, miscarriage & abortion and brings a comprehensive yet compassionate perspective to the plight of women during these shifting times. The Modern Woman's Guide to Self-Abortion: https://marylousingleton.wordpress.com/2019/05/ Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods: https://amzn.to/3wN6Was Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health: https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/38/2/299/13533/Arrests-of-and-Forced-Interventions-on-Pregnant UPCOMING EVENTS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS: Women Leaving the Left June panel discussion June 10 @ The Austin Public Library: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-leaving-the-left-tickets-335030895427 Autonomous Fertility Workshop (IN-PERSON) with me and Mary Lou Singleton June 11 in Austin, Texas: https://www.whosebodyisit.com/autonomous-fertility-workshop COMPREHENSIVE EPISODE RESOURCE LIST: https://www.whosebodyisit.com/abortion-episode-resources ➢➢➢ SUPPORT THE PODCAST | https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whosebodyisit?locale.x=en_US 1:1 COACHING SOVEREIGN WOMEN | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/coaching-for-sovereign-women HYPNOSIS FOR HEALING & RADICAL CHANGE | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/hypnosis SHOP ACTIVIST STICKERS | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/shop INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/whosebodyisit/

Lifelong women's activist, mother, midwife, and family nurse practitioner MaryLou Singleton has served on the board of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives and Women's Liberation Front. MaryLou breaks down how women's voices have been hidden from history, an especially problematic scenario given that empowering women and mothers is the most important way to have a sane society. Female erasure in the form of opting out from the oppressed class to the oppressor class is yet another tactic of the patriarchy to control and exploit women's reproductive capacity. Despite real dangers and risks, we must face the medical industrial complex as embodied women to counter the disturbing commodification of our bodies and minds. MaryLou Singleton: https://marylousingleton.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR0Hy6k45gR9LOph7k0stBGXxRnIEfsKzdgBUWxs9NKVLDWy5f52gk3hTa0 Open Letter to MANA: https://womancenteredmidwifery.wordpress.com/take-action/ ➢➢➢ SUPPORT THE PODCAST | https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whosebodyisit?locale.x=en_US 1:1 COACHING SOVEREIGN WOMEN | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/coaching-for-sovereign-women HYPNOSIS FOR HEALING & RADICAL CHANGE | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/hypnosis SHOP ACTIVIST STICKERS | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/shop INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/whosebodyisit/

2020 has been deemed the year of the nurse and the midwife. For this reason, we couldn’t let 2020 come to an end without interviewing midwife and family nurse practitioner, Mary Lou Singleton. Mary Lou has practiced as a midwife for over 20 years, attending over 1000 planned homebirths in the Albuquerque area. She now runs an independent clinic, Enchanted Family Medicine, where she provides womb-to-tomb primary care for families wanting to make informed, autonomous health choices. Mary Lou has sat on the board of directors for the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, and the Women's Liberation Front. Mary Lou is a life-long advocate for the rights of women and children and we are honored that she chose to join us on Venus Rising.

Today on the show I speak to American midwife, birth educator and freebirther Augustine Colebrook. We talk about her 3 births which include a 5 kg baby, a postpartum haemorrhage and shoulder dystocia which she handled by herself at home. We also talk about birth trauma, birth sovereignty and debate about the law of attraction. While I don't agree with everything Augustine says and we go around in circles at times - I do love a healthy debate and differing opinions, and I hope you do to . Enjoy! About Augustine: Augustine is a nationally recognized midwifery educator, experienced business executive, and veteran midwife with a heart focused on the underserved. She respects a woman's need for the empowering feeling of being undisturbed during labor. She balances this attention to the sacred with 20 years experience attending births in hospitals, birth centers, and homes in rural, urban and suburban environments in the US and abroad. Augustine's focus is finely attuned to the process of letting go and opening to the unknown in labor and in life. Her life's mission is to mainstream midwifery and deconstruct the culture of fear and misinformation that surrounds the maternity world. To that end, Augustine 'midwife's the midwife' through her many education programs, consulting services, product development, podcast and private coaching services for midwives, students, maternity practice owners, and birth center administrators. It is her profound honor to illuminate the sacred path to joyful and sustainable midwifery practice. She has been teaching midwives and students for more than a decade and delights in seeing the 'lightbulb' when a new skill or concept is mastered. Augustine caught her first client's baby on Mother's Day 1999 in South Carolina. Over the last 20 years she has been blessed to work with over a 1000 families and hundreds of students. She is a certified professional midwife and a member of the Midwives Alliance of North America, a preceptor with 8 different MEAC accredited schools nationwide, a certified preceptor with the North American Registry of Midwives and a member of the Association of Midwifery Educators. Her newest creation is the Worldwide Midwifery Podcast, uniting the midwives of the world through sharing information, education, support and story. Augustine has been interviewed for Mothering, Parents, and Parenting Magazine, is featured in a chapter of "The Business of Baby" by Jennifer Margulis and appears in the documentary, "The Vaccine Wars" on Frontline NBC.  Additionally, Augustine has a master's degree from Bastyr University in Seattle, WA where she majored in Maternal/Child Health Systems. In her spare time, Augustine leads adventure retreats for women hesitant about the unknown. She loves to travel and is passionate about real food, sustainable communities and clean energy, tiny houses and safe birth that feels sacred.

Episode 10: Liberating Our Wellness - A Feminist Recovery Plan with Tanya Smith-Johnson Tanya is a mother of 6, home birther, homeschooler, Navy veteran and midwife. Her Bachelor's of Science in Biology and Masters of Science in Medical Science foundationed her didactic midwifery education from the Midwives College of Utah. Tanya is a contributing team member to the program development in Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaiʻi, and she is a board member and Oʻahu representative on the Midwives Alliance of Hawaiʻi. Her work serving mothers full spectrum with hands-on, loving and supportive midwifery care coupled with her policy work with the Hawaiʻi State Commission on the Status of Women brings full circle her passion and work to support reproductive justice, birth equity, and the improvement of birth outcomes for BlPOC. Women+ see the world, hold up the world Economy = to manage the household Seeing/sight to heal all the places, bring the light into the darkness = BIPOC, equity, inequity, power structures crumbling VALUE, how we value, who we value - caregivers, elders, babies, farmers, connection, land, people, relationships NOW is the time, call it what it is/what it was and NOW is the time, worldwide, to stay connected and in our power to birth a new way, our way of doing and being that respects, nurtures and communicates reciprocity to Earth Mother, mothers, elders, babies + caregivers as our most precious centers of economy that needs to inform global economy Connect with Tanya Smith-Johnson for unschooling, homeschooling, midwifery + more at her Milk and Honey Studio Support this work: www.patreon.com/kuikealoha "Building Bridges Not Walking on Backs, A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19"

Carol Leonard: Of Midwives and Bad Beavers Riding the rails of life from Woodstock to Bad Beaver Farm, Carol Leonard's life continues to unfurl in miraculous ways. Carol, a "foremother of the modern midwifery movement," was the first modern-age midwife certified to practice legally in NH and has been practicing for over the last three decades. She is co-founder of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) representing all midwives in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, serving one term as President of MANA. Her work to improve maternity care in Moscow, Russia, was featured on 20/20 and was written into Congressional Record. She has delivered approximately 1,200 babies safely in their own homes and as you will hear in this podcast and one to follow, she has midwived a good friend and a New Hampshire Icon - Crow Dickenson - through his passing.

Carol Leonard: Of Midwives and Bad Beavers Riding the rails of life from Woodstock to Bad Beaver Farm, Carol Leonard's life continues to unfurl in miraculous ways. Carol, a "foremother of the modern midwifery movement," was the first modern-age midwife certified to practice legally in NH and has been practicing for over the last three decades. She is co-founder of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) representing all midwives in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, serving one term as President of MANA. Her work to improve maternity care in Moscow, Russia, was featured on 20/20 and was written into Congressional Record. She has delivered approximately 1,200 babies safely in their own homes and as you will hear in this podcast and one to follow, she has midwived a good friend and a New Hampshire Icon - Crow Dickenson - through his passing.

In today's episode I'm talking with Ms. Afua Hassan, a community midwife in Houston Texas, with 37 years of experience and more than 2,000 births under her belt. Ms. Afua graduated from Brown University with a degree in African American Studies. She was on the path to becoming an obstetrician, but found her calling after a chance meeting with a midwife. Ms. Afua's journey brought her to Houston to study midwifery under Mercy Inyang. After graduating from the Houston School of Midwifery in 1984, she served for many years as a home birth midwife before opening her own birth center in Houston's third ward in 2011--The Birthing Place. The Birthing Place is the only freestanding birth center in Houston owned and operated by a black midwife. In 2019, she received the Midwives Alliance of North America's Outstanding Community Midwife Award for her exceptional clinical care and the emotional and educational support she provides to the community. We cover a lot of topics in our conversation, including how The Birthing Place uses social media, especially Instagram, to recruit new clients, the hands-on training and mentorship she received as a practicing midwife during the first 10 years of her career, the benefits of living above the birth center and being located in Houston's third ward, the longevity of her work and how she fights burnout and the impact she hopes her work will have on the future of midwifery. ***Listeners, please note that there are some technical issues with the recording, causing the audio to sound out of sync at times. You are still able to understand both speakers, but miss out on some of the richness of the dynamic conversation. This is far from ideal, but the insights from this interview are so interesting that we wanted to still share them with you.*** You can learn more about The Birthing Place at birthingplacemidwifehoustonnaturalhomewaterbirthservicesnearme.com/. You can also find The Birthing Place on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at the handle @The Birthing Place. Find me on Instagram @AnjelicaMalone and at AnjelicaMalone.com. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you'd like to be a guest on The American Midwife Series, please send an email to hello@anjelicamalone.com, with details about who you are, where you're located, and a topic you'd like to discuss. We're especially interested in hearing from seasoned midwives of 10+ years and black midwives, but all are welcome. We'd love to hear from you! Send in a voice message here: https://anchor.fm/anjelica-malone/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anjelica-malone/message

In this episode, I am joined by Sabrina Tran of Alabama, who recently had a daughter, and took the Evidence Based Birth Childbirth Class with Instructor Traci Weafer. Sabrina, a therapist, is now a stay at home mom. Sabrina had a precipitous - or, extremely fast labor and delivery. She describes it as exciting! Hear her tell her story of how her baby was born before the midwife could make it to her home. I also share the evidence on perineal tearing,  and the relationships between tearing, provider experience, and home birth. For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) and our Instructor program. Find an EBB Instructor here, and click here to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class. RESOURCES: Click here for great images explaining perineal tears on the Mayo Clinic website. More references: Albers, L. L., Sedler, K. D., Bedrisk, E. J., et al. (2005). Midwifery care measures in the second stage of labor and reduction of genital tract trauma at birth: a randomized trial. J Midwifery Womens Health. 50(5): 365-372. Mizrachi, Y., Leytes, S., Levy, M., et al. (2017). Does midwife experience affect the rate of severe perineal tears? Birth. 44(2): 161-166. Begley, C., Guilliland, K., Dixon, L., et al. (2018). A qualitative exploration of techniques used by expert midwives to preserve the perineum intact. Women Birth. Kopas, M. L. (2014). A review of evidence-based practices for management of the second stage of labor. J Midwifery Womens Health. 59(3):264-76. Shorten, A., Donsante, J. and Shorten, B. (2002). Birth position, accoucheur, and perineal outcomes: informing women about choices for vaginal birth. Birth. 29(1): 18-27. Sandall, J., Soltani, H., Shennan, A., et al. (2013). Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for childbearing women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. (8): CD004667. Hutton, E. K., Cappelletti, A., Reitsma, A. H., et al. (2016). Outcomes associated with planned place of birth among women with low-risk pregnancies. CMAJ. 188(5): E80-E90. Hastings-Tolsma, M., Vincent, D., Emeis, C., et al. (2007). Getting through birth in one piece: protecting the perineum. MCN AM J Matern Child Nurs. 32: 158-64. Landy H. J., Laughon, S. K., Bailit, J. L., et al. (2011). Characteristics associated with severe perineal and cervical lacerations during vaginal delivery. Obstet Gynecol. 117(3): 627-35 Klein, M. C., Gauthier, R. J., Jorgensen, S. H., et al. (1992). Does episiotomy prevent perineal trauma and pelvic floor relaxation? Online J Curr Clin Trials. 10. Klein, M. C., Gauthier, R. J., Robbins, J. M., et al. (1994). Relationship of episiotomy to perineal trauma and morbidity, sexual dysfunction, and pelvic floor relaxation. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 171(3): 591-8. Aasheim, V., Nilsen, A. B. V., Reinar, L. M., et al. (2017). Perineal techniques during the second stage of labour for reducing perineal trauma. Cochrane Database of Sys Rev. 6: CD006672 Alliman, J. and Phillippi, J. C. (2016). Maternal Outcomes in Birth Centers: An integrative review of the literature. J Midwifery Womens Health. 61(1): 21-51. Cheyney, M., Bovbjerg, M., Everson, C., et al. (2014). Outcomes of care for 16,924 planned home births in the U.S.: the Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project, 2004 to 2009. J Midwifery Womens Health. 59(1): 17-27. Hutton, E. K., Cappelletti, A., Reitsma, A. H., et al. (2016). Outcomes associated with planned place of birth among women with low-risk pregnancies. CMAJ. 188(5): E80-E90. Click here to access the EBB Signature Article, The Evidence on: Waterbirth.

John Weeks is a writer, speaker, chronicler and organizer whose work in the movement for integrative health and medicine began in 1983. He is publisher-editor of The Integrator Blog News & Reports which since 1995 – in various forms – has created primary connective terrain for the diverse stakeholders and professions in the field. Archived content from 2006-2015 is available here and subsequent content here. As an organizer, Weeks convened the Integrative Medicine Industry Leadership Summits (2000-2002), directed the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Care (2004-2006), fund-raised the start-up and was on the founding steering committee of the Integrative Health Policy Consortium (2002-). He co-founded the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health, which he directed 2007-2015, was on the founding board of the Academy of Integrative Medicine and Health, and is proud to be on the advisory board of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved. Since mid-2015, John has re-focused his work on presenting, teaching and mentoring. He has keynoted, led plenary sessions, breakouts and offered guest lectures for dozens of organizations. These range from the Association of American Medical Colleges and Harvard University to Bastyr University and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; from the UCLA School of Medicine to the Institute for Health and Productivity Management and Palmer College of Chiropractic; from the International Congress for Research on Integrative Medicine and Health to the American Hospital Association and the Midwives Alliance of North America. Since 1995, he has consulted with multiple insurers, employers, professional organizations, universities, and government agencies at all levels. In this interview, John discusses the state of integrative medicine and the challenges that alternative and complementary modalities face in today's health care landscape. Following there interview, Ricky describes his own perspective on the importance of complementary medicine and the paradigm shift in health care that we are in the midst of. Links:http://www.johnweeks-integrator.com/posts/ To sign up for John Weeks twice-monthly newsletter:https://gem.godaddy.com/signups/196108/join

In this episode, Kimberly interviews women's wellness expert, and midwife with over 30+ years. Her holistic approach to women's health has led her to additional studies in nutrition, homeopathy, herbology, prenatal exercise, energy medicine, cranial sacral therapy, visceral manipulation, the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Holistic Pelvic Care™. She is a Certified Arvigo® Practitioner and works with women at all stages in their lives to support healthy menses, fertility, digestion, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and beyond. In addition, Abigail is a Certified Arvigo® Self Care Teacher and Doula Trainer. She is currently enrolled in Dr. Aviva Romm's Herbal Medicine for Women training and studying shamanism with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada. Abigail is a member of the California Association of Midwives, the Midwives Alliance of North America, the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health and the Maya Arvigo International Association. OMG OMG, you're going to discover so much in this episode about ALL things women's health - from pregnancy to labor to birth control to IVF. You'll also learn why  focusing on the pain of labor is keeping you in the pain (12:30), how to heal bad cramps (15:30), how women over 40 can get pregnant with ease (20:00), why impatience is killing your chances of getting pregnant (28:00), what is IVF and when you should use it (31:00), birth control pills do for your body (38:00), how to combat inflammation by investing in your health (43:00), why connecting to your childhood desire will set you up for success in all areas of your life (49:00), and how spiritual compassion is integral to source from in all that you do (51:00) If you're in Los Angeles and are in need of some Arvigo abdominal massage, or are looking to get pregnant in a more holistic way, then contact Abigail Regan here: http://www.rebirthwomenswellness.com Get the Garden of Life Wild Rose Detox I went o here: https://amzn.to/2NLdcpg This episode was originally recorded inside my 4-month high performance group coaching program, The Queens Way. Enrollment begins this summer. GET ON THE WAITLIST HERE! If you're a high-achiever looking to take your life and business to the next level, and don't want to wait for The Queen's Way to open up, the I've got a few spots left open for my 6-month high performance + business building coaching program. To apply is $147 for the initial 1:1 90-minute consult, where, no matter what, you will walk away with 5 personalized strategies to take your mindset, energy, productivity, and influence and impact to the next level. APPLY NOW FOR 1:1 COACHING Of if you're of a more visual learner, you can watch the episode on Youtube and SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL TOO HERE! Thank you so much for tuning in! Please leave a review on iTunes so we can keep the magic coming your way. For more biz inspo + mindset tools, follow us on Instagram: @crownyourselfnow Follow my own mompreneur journey to #CrownYourself on Instagram: @kimberly.spencer Join the Facebook Group: "Crown Yourself Coaching" For more mindset, motivation, actionable strategies, and business-building tips, check out: crownyourself.com

In this episode, Kimberly interviews women's wellness expert, and midwife with over 30+ years. Her holistic approach to women's health has led her to additional studies in nutrition, homeopathy, herbology, prenatal exercise, energy medicine, cranial sacral therapy, visceral manipulation, the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Holistic Pelvic Care™. She is a Certified Arvigo® Practitioner and works with women at all stages in their lives to support healthy menses, fertility, digestion, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and beyond. In addition, Abigail is a Certified Arvigo® Self Care Teacher and Doula Trainer. She is currently enrolled in Dr. Aviva Romm's Herbal Medicine for Women training and studying shamanism with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada. Abigail is a member of the California Association of Midwives, the Midwives Alliance of North America, the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health and the Maya Arvigo International Association. OMG OMG, you're going to discover so much in this episode about ALL things women's health - from pregnancy to labor to birth control to IVF. You'll also learn why focusing on the pain of labor is keeping you in the pain (12:30), how to heal bad cramps (15:30), how women over 40 can get pregnant with ease (20:00), why impatience is killing your chances of getting pregnant (28:00), what is IVF and when you should use it (31:00), birth control pills do for your body (38:00), how to combat inflammation by investing in your health (43:00), why connecting to your childhood desire will set you up for success in all areas of your life (49:00), and how spiritual compassion is integral to source from in all that you do (51:00) If you're in Los Angeles and are in need of some Arvigo abdominal massage, or are looking to get pregnant in a more holistic way, then contact Abigail Regan here: http://www.rebirthwomenswellness.com Get the Garden of Life Wild Rose Detox I went o here: https://amzn.to/2NLdcpg This episode was originally recorded inside my 4-month high performance group coaching program, The Queens Way. Enrollment begins this summer. GET ON THE WAITLIST HERE! If you're a high-achiever looking to take your life and business to the next level, and don't want to wait for The Queen's Way to open up, the I've got a few spots left open for my 6-month high performance + business building coaching program. To apply is $147 for the initial 1:1 90-minute consult, where, no matter what, you will walk away with 5 personalized strategies to take your mindset, energy, productivity, and influence and impact to the next level. APPLY NOW FOR 1:1 COACHING Of if you're of a more visual learner, you can watch the episode on Youtube and SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL TOO HERE! Thank you so much for tuning in! Please leave a review on iTunes so we can keep the magic coming your way. For more biz inspo + mindset tools, follow us on Instagram: @crownyourself.now Follow my own mompreneur journey to #CrownYourself on Instagram: @kimberly.spencer Join the Facebook Group: "Crown Yourself Coaching" For more mindset, motivation, actionable strategies, and business-building tips, check out: crownyourself.com

In today's podcast, we talk about the types of different home birth midwives in the U.S. This podcast will prep you to attend the free public webinar all about the evidence on home birth. To register for the webinar (only available through May 8, 2018), visit https://ebbirth.com/homebirthwebinar To learn more about the EBB Professional Membership, visit https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/ and visit EBB PDF library here:  http://evidencebasedbirthacademy.com/dashboard/pdf-library/   Here are the references we used to create today's podcast: American College of Nurse Midwives (2017). Comparison of Certified Nurse-Midwives, Certified Midwives, Certified Professional Midwives. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=59&cat=12&button=Search&rec=254 The Big Push for Midwives (2018). CPMs Legal Status by State. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: http://pushformidwives.nationbuilder.com/cpms_legal_status_by_state MacDorman, M. F. and Declercq, E. (2016). "Trends and Characteristics of United States Out-of-Hospital Births 2004-2014: New Information on Risk Status and Access to Care." Birth 43(2): 116-124. Click here. Midwives Alliance of North America (2016). About Midwives: Types of Midwives. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: https://mana.org/about-midwives/types-of-midwife. Marzalik, P. R., Feltham, K. J., Jefferson, K., et al. (2018). "Midwifery education in the U.S. - Certified Nurse-Midwife, Certified Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife." Midwifery 60: 9-12. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471175

WLRN’s Edition 16 podcast focuses on the money behind the medicalized transgender movement and the impact that the movement has on the lesbian community. We were inspired to these topics by the canceled Left Forum panel that was set to explore them in detail. Our interviewees were all involved in that panel, and WLRN is proud to give them a platform after Left Forum silenced them. Mary Lou Singleton is a lifelong women’s liberation activist. She practiced as a homebirth midwife for 20 years and now works as a family nurse practitioner. She has served on the boards of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, the Stop Patriarchy Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and the Women’s Liberation Front. Jane Chotard is a former attorney whose specialty was regulatory healthcare, including Standards of Care and Informed Consent. She participated in the formation of California Lawyers for Human Rights, as well as the Women’s Committee at GLAAD in the 1990’s. Currently, she is the mother of two teenage boys and works in the area of Contemplative Care for those facing end-of-life issues. Taylor Fogarty is a Brooklyn-dwelling freelancer who writes about feminism, politics, and anything else she has an opinion on. She also tweets a lot: @theloudlesbian. You can check out her website at www.taylorfogarty.com WLRN staff member Nile Pierce wrote this edition’s commentary, exploring how and why the powerful men in the US-based pharmaceutical industry profit from the transgender movement. This edition’s music spots are Fleetwood Mac’s “Little Lies” and Ali Bee’s “Look How the Money Rolls In.” Photo credit goes to Alix Dobkin for our featured image of two lesbians in the 70s, Louise and Liza Cowan. As always, this month’s podcast was sound mixed by our resident audio magician in chief, Jenna Di Quarto.

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Heartseed Health Podcast. In this episode we’re exploring the midwifery model of birth. We’ll be talking with 2 midwives from the Community Roots Midwife Collective in Longmont, Colorado. All of us (as far as I know) were birthed onto this planet by our mothers one way or another (thanks Mom!). It is a powerful and sacred event the can carry a lot of significance for the family. There are many different ways of approaching birth, and as a culture, here in the US, we tend to see it as a medical event that belongs in a hospital rather than a natural event that can happen in our homes. Now, most of us are incredibly lucky to be living in a place and an era where adequate health care options are available and where birth, which can involve life or death situations, can be supported by medical help if and when needed. Birth is a miraculous undertaking for the human body regardless of where it takes place. Every family has to make the decision of how they want and are able to bring new life into the world. Birth is the last place we want to be bringing shame or guilt and I think it’s incredibly important, that we treat everyone else’s choice with dignity and respect. As an acupuncturist I work with women in all of the stages of bringing new life into the world. From supporting fertility and conception, to dealing with morning sickness and other pregnancy challenges (including breech baby presentation), and in the promotion of labor and postpartum recovery. My experiences have taught me humility and respect for the strength and resilience of the human body and spirit, and has given me an equally deep appreciation for ancient and modern medicines. I hope everyone is able to listen to the episode with curiosity and an open mind. I’m happy to field any questions and I know Nichole and Lo are as well. I hope you Enjoy the interview - How Lo and Nichole decided to become midwives - How the Community Roots Midwifery Collective Came to be - Who tends to choose home births and why - What some of the common barriers to home birth are (and how some people overcome them). - The sliding-scale and the birth fund. - How birth affects everyone in our community. - A little about the experience of a home birth and how it can differ from other perinatal care. - How expecting couples can stay connected and maintain a supportive environment. - What do midwives do to take care of themselves? - Birth as a Rite of Passage… - Important things to think about with postpartum care. Recommended Resources: -Aviva Romm’s postpartum book (https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Health-after-Birth-Postpartum/dp/0892819308) - Citizens for Midwifery - http://cfmidwifery.org/index.aspx - Midwives Alliance for North America - https://mana.org/ - Colorado Midwives Association - http://coloradomidwives.org/ - Ina May Gaskin’s books: http://inamay.com/books/ Contact info: Collectivemidwifery@gmail.com www.midwifecollective.com Facebook Page Thank you again for listening the Heartseed Health Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please feel free to share it with other who may appreciate and enjoy it and I encourage you to subscribe either via iTunes or our website to get updated when the next episode comes out. I look forward to connecting again soon.

Kathi has been a practicing midwife since 1992 and a Certified Professional Midwife since 1997. She is the founder of Dance of Life Midwifery and has served on the board of the Michigan Midwives Association for many years (six years as president) and is a member of the international organization Midwives Alliance. Kathi has 3 grown daughters […] The post Kathi Mulder, Dance of Life Midwifery appeared first on Fulfillament Stories.

We celebrate International Day of the Midwife by getting real with Whitney’s own midwife. We candidly discuss the midwifery model of care for pregnant women, teen girls, and the whole family. Plus, Drew talks about disrupting the Trump rally and teaching his girls about civil disobedience. And Whitney wants a night out as long as it means her baby never grows up. Resources & Links from this episode: -- Mothers day wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day -- Khristeena Kingsley’s website: http://www.wnymidwife.com/ -- Video of the procedure Whitney had done to flip Ceci from breech: http://tiny.cc/iwp2ay -- Multiple book recommendations from Khristeena: http://tiny.cc/2up2ay -- International Day of the Midwife: http://www.internationalmidwives.org/events/idotm/ -- Midwives Alliance of North America: http://mana.org/ -- American College of Nurse Midwives: http://www.midwife.org/ -- NYSALM: http://newyork.midwife.org/ -- Drew’s pick: PUNCH BALLOONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlrGw_0Dw6U -- Whitney’s pick: Little Free Libraries https://littlefreelibrary.org/ Just a Phase is produced by Whitney Crispell. Theme music is “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba, and used under a Creative Commons license.

Special Guest: Marinah Farrell: President of the Midwives Alliance of North America. Politics and traditional medicine are what led Marinah to midwifery, and she has a firm commitment to both political activism and birth work. Marinah has been the president of various non-profit boards, has worked in waterbirth centers and medical facilities for international NGOs, in free-standing birth centers in the U.S, and has been the owner of a long standing homebirth practice. Website:www.mana.org Special Guest: Ynanna Djehuty is an Afro-Dominicana born and raised in the Bronx. She is a midwife in training at Maternidad La Luz, a writer and certified birth doula. The focus of her work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. Website: thesewatersrundeep.com

My guest tonight is Tamara Tait. We will be talking about VBACS and the VBAC Summit and what you need to know about your choices and rights.  Trained as a midwife and marriage and family therapist Tamara has a varied background in women’s reproductive health activism and has been working in maternal, infant and child health for the last seven years. Tamara has a deep interest in the sustainability of the midwifery profession and politics as it relates to birth. Currently pursuing a Phd in Family Therapy, her research interests focus on exploring mental health issues that are pervasive during the childbearing year particularly the experience of postpartum depression, post traumatic stress associated with birth and perinatal bereavement. Tamara serves as the Southeast representative on the board of the Midwives Alliance of North America, is the current president of Florida Friends of Midwives, founder of The Monarch Collective and the owner of The Gathering Place in Miami, Florida.