How does the gender binary show up around pregnancy and birth? How do trans and gender-nonconforming people navigate all that? How does race intersect with these experiences? And are things starting to change at all? Are our ideas about birth and gender becoming more expansive and more inclusive? And if they’re not, how can we make it better?

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Episode resources:

Doula4All (Nadine Ashby): https://www.doula4all.com/

Birth Revolution: https://thebirthrevolution.org/

Embodied Birth (Ash Dasuqi): https://www.embodiedbirthclass.com/

“A Mother, But Not a Woman”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/16/non-binary-pregnant-navigating-most-gendered-role-all-motherhood/

“Black birthing persons matter - all of them” (Harvard Medical School Primary Care Review): https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/review/black-birthing-persons-matter

“For many pregnant trans people, competent medical care is hard to find”: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/for-many-pregnant-trans-people-competent-medical-care-is-hard-to-find

Rainbow Families Trans and Gender Diverse Parents Guide: https://www.transhealthsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Rainbow_Families_TGD_Parents-Guide.pdf

Other podcasts:

Masculine Birth Ritual: https://www.masculinebirthritual.com/home

Evidence Based Birth (Episode 182: Black-led Queer and Trans Birth Work): https://evidencebasedbirth.com/black-led-queer-and-trans-birth-work-with-mystique-hargrove-kortney-lapeyrolerie-and-nadine-ashby/

Books:

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (by Krys Malcolm Belc)

For the kids:

What Makes a Baby (author)