S.3 E.5 // Reconstructing the Culture of Birth Through the Lens of Nurse-Midwifery, a conversation with midwife Sarah Logan and Catherine Ellis

In this episode, Catherine Ellis speaks with Sarah Logan about paternalism and trauma in obstetrics, particularly the labor and delivery process, and how nurse-midwives, birthing people, and their communities can rebuild the current culture of birth in America.

This episode was hosted, recorded, and produced by Catherine Ellis as part of Reckoning and Repair Season 3, "Black reproduction & justice in Philly," a set of immersive oral histories and multimedia figurations that engage with reproductive justice in Philly,  drawing from the "Reproduction, Justice, and Care: Listening in Philly" course co-taught by Dr. Alissa Jordan and Dr. Daniela Brissett at the University of Pennsylvania.

For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com

Reckoning and Repair is part multimedia counter-archive, part laboratory, for telling stories and listening to stories in cities. Each season traces stories of resistance to (and repair from) the enduring and specific legacies of exclusion/withholding/erasure that haunt our cities. Through immersive oral histories and collaborative storytelling, student scholars, activists, and creatives illuminate the slow, difficult, yet vital work of accountability and healing in haunted worlds. The project is directed by Dr. Alissa Jordan at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennyslvania. ​