Masculine Birth Ritual
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMasculine 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.
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Episodes
E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came
August 08, 2019 23:04 - 51 minutes - 26.4 MBOur 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. "I really learned from putting out our Germination Proclamation that really it was like an instruction manual for our families and communities for how to love us in this moment. That was really helpful to everyone from uncl...
E 15 | Ask Those Questions
August 06, 2019 19:28 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBIn this interview, Rachel L. Kaplan and I talk about their experience with preterm birth. A friend of Rachel's recently pointed out that there aren't a lot of queer voices being heard about the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), and even fewer from masculine of center folx -- so she suggested Rachel check out Masculine Birth Ritual. 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...
E14 | Meeting People Where They're At
June 02, 2019 19:42 - 58 minutes - 30.2 MBOur interview today is with Amanda Hayden. Amanda is a certified lactation counselor, social worker, and full-spectrum labor & postpartum doula trained through Ancient Song Doula Services practicing with the NYC Doula Collective. She works a doula and provides counseling and programming support for trans and gender-non-conforming people who are family-building including adoption, family planning, and building relationships. In this episode, we talk about the personal complexity of gender and...
E13 | I Would Like It If You Would Listen
April 25, 2019 05:35 - 55 minutes - 31.2 MBIn 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. Show notes at: www.masculinebirthritual.com
E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power
March 18, 2019 21:56 - 44 minutes - 24.7 MBIn E12 I talk with Greta LaFluer. 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, she and I talk about western medical ideas about gender and approaches to birth in this period, the ways that genderqueer and Masculine of Center people are found (or not found) in the colonial archives, how legacies of white supremacy and violence are historically tied to white g...
E11 | It's Not Gender Weird, It's Just Weird
March 01, 2019 08:30 - 35 minutes - 34 MBIn this interview, Rae Goodman-Lucker and I talk about his experiences in preparing for pregnancy and birthing two children. She shares about her struggle to get doctors to believe the severity of his pregnancy fatigue, how he planned a community ceremony in preparation for pregnancy, and her perspectives on pain management during birth that are derived from queerness. Our kids are playing around us as we talk for this recording, so there's also some really cute moments of parenting in actio...
E10 | She Protected Her Children From the Bear:
February 15, 2019 08:30 - 35 minutes - 21.8 MBIn Episode 10 I talk with Takeya Trayer. Takeya is an artist, mommy to three children, a teacher, and the author of a children's book "My Mommy is My Daddy." In this episode, we talk about her homebirth experience, her community's response to her pregnancy as a Masculine of Center person, how she navigated and exited homelessness while parenting two small children, and her series of paintings that feature Black and Indigenous MoC pregnant, nursing, and nurturing figures. You can find Tak...
E9 | Buffering the Impacts of Discrimination:
February 01, 2019 08:30 - 59 minutes - 31.6 MBIn 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 sin...
E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers:
January 15, 2019 08:00 - 55 minutes - 31.1 MBE8 | 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. Show notes, transcr...
E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux
December 01, 2018 18:28 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBMidwife 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 cu...
E6 | A Super Fierce Stance:
November 19, 2018 23:58 - 57 minutes - 47.7 MBToday 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, which was released in 2011. She runs her own midwife practice, RECLAIM Mi...
E6 | A Super Fierce Stance:
November 19, 2018 23:58 - 57 minutes - 47.7 MBToday 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, which was released in 2011. She runs her own midwife practice, RECLAIM Mid...
E5 | This Blessing Got Kind of Everywhere:
October 31, 2018 21:43 - 50 minutes - 47.4 MBIn 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. Show notes and transcription of this episode are available at masculinebirthritual.com. To continue the conversation, follow us on Instagram, Facebo...
E4 | People Didn't Know What to Do With Me:
October 16, 2018 19:00 - 52 minutes - 28.7 MBIn 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 conversatio...
E3 | Possibility Models for Parenthood:
October 01, 2018 23:06 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBMac 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.
E2| Grow Your Own Parasite! Get Pregnant!:
September 15, 2018 19:00 - 58 minutes - 41.3 MBThe 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 Stephani...
Episode 1| Introduction to Masculine Birth Ritual
September 01, 2018 20:37 - 12 minutes - 14.2 MBIn this introductory episode to the Masculine Birth Ritual podcast Grover Wehman-Brown gives an overview of the what and why of Masculine Birth Ritual. She gives an introduction to herself and why she answered a call to build this project. This episode includes information on how to follow Masculine Birth Ritual through social media, what kind of stories and artists we are actively seeking to talk with, and information on how to support the work through becoming a patron or sponsor.