Full Spectrum Doula Circle

Full Spectrum Doula Circle

Conversations about the abortion doula movement and full-spectrum reproductive healthcare.

Episodes

May 16, 2019 30 mins
Diana Halsey and Jessica Lujan from Tewa Women United’s Indigenous Women’s Health and Justice Program talked with me about supporting indigenous moms in New Mexico, the story of the Yiya Vi Kagingdi doula program, and how they braid together reproductive justice with other issue areas such as environmental justice and sexualized violence.

RESOURCES
Tewa Women United http://tewawomenunited.org/
Vogue article/photo essay about Tewa Wom...
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Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney, co-authors of The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People talked with me in January 2017 about their book, story-based doula care, and organizing doulas.

“This is what she needs us to bear witness to at the moment” --Lauren Mitchell

RESOURCES

* The Doulas: Radical Care For Pregnant People https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-doulas

* Bitch’s review of The Doulas https://www.bitchmedia.org/artic...
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I talk with Nneka Hall, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness (PAIL) advocate with an emphasis on working with Black families, about her own loss story, how pregnancy loss disproportionately affects Black families, and how birth doulas can use their skills to support clients experiencing loss.

RESOURCES
Holding Our Space https://holdingourspace.tumblr.com/
The Mother Wit Conference https://www.themotherwitconference.com/
Birth Vs. Black ...
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Dr. Laura McGuire talked with me about supporting young people through pregnancy and parenting, doula support for queer people and people with a kink lifestyle, and support for people with a history of trauma.

“The choices and options that healed some tormented others—there were no rights or wrongs, only maybes.” - Dr. Laura McGuire

RESOURCES
1. Laura’s article: The Queer Doula https://www.spectrumsouth.com/queer-doula/

2. Laura’s web...
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Alyssa Basmajian & Michele Ko have both written about the abortion doula movement. I talked with them the day after the 2016 U.S. general election about what abortion doulas do, the intersection between the abortion doula movement and reproductive justice, how abortion doula care is stigma-busting, and what surprised each of them about abortion doulaing.

RESOURCES
* Michele's Ms. blog "What Being An Abortion Doula Has Ta...
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October 25, 2018 5 mins
I'm starting a podcast! For the past two years I’ve been interviewing experts on full-spectrum reproductive healthcare and the abortion doula movement in a monthly webinar series I've hosted for full-spectrum doulas. Now I’m re-launching these conversations as a podcast in order to make them more widely accessible.

https://www.patreon.com/fullspectrumdoulacircle
twitter.com/FSDCircle
facebook.com/FullSpectrumDoulaCircle/

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