By the time I had attended over 150 births and provided many hours of prenatal counsel, I had poured through hundreds of studies on birth, continuously dropping my jaw at the ways modern birth practices are directly contrary to what both evidence and oral traditions from many skillful community birth workers describe as safest.

I have been immersed in birth long enough to observe some meta patterning that I don’t hear many educators speaking to, and I’m concerned about that! If we can understand these larger scale birth paradigms that exist within a wider culture of violence, white supremacy, gender oppression and profit driven industry, we can actually participate in that birth culture as queer and trans people who belong – with significantly increased safety, embodiment, social emotional wellbeing, and joy.

I’ve collected so much valuable material for full-body perspective shifting to share with folks who are moving into birth, primarily underscoring birth in the context of a settler-colonial, capitalist society. This information is needed! And I am sharing it with trans/queer & BIPOC folks, the people most disproportionately affected by health inequities.