E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers:

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01/15/19 • 55 min

E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers: an interview with J Carroll on nonbinary single parenting and birth

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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E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers: an interview with J Carroll on nonbinary single parenting and birth

Show notes, transcription, and contact information are available at:

masculinebirthritual.com

Support the show at:

patreon.com/masculinebirthritual

Previous Episode

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 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. We also dig into white supremacy as it intersects with the model of obstetrics, the colonization of midwife culture by white women, under-compensation of BIPOC birthworkers by white clients, and the way it contributes to white people being divorced from their own cultural and spiritual traditions. The conversation ends with a discussion about cis/transmasculine tensions in interpersonal relationships.

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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. We talk about the impacts of racism on birth outcomes, what works to buffer the health effects of discrimination, and what the research tells us about the impacts of discrimination on health in general. They talk about why they started the Radical Doula website and how doula culture in the U.S. has changed in the 10+ years since then. In min 36-59 we talk about joy practices, visioning the future we want, and house plants.

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Pérez: miriamzperez.com

Recorded on Ohlone Territory.