Masculine Birth Ritual
by Grover Wehman-Brown
Masculine 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.The podcast is just one season long and was recorded 7 years ago, so some of the recommended resources and sometimes even people's names or stories about themselves may have evolved. Because the show remains a valuable resource for people, it stays up! While there's no longer a Patreon for this project, if you'd like to send a "thank you" to the tip jar, you can do so here: https://buymeacoffee.com/groverwehmanbrown.
Episodes
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E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came
Our 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...
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E 15 | Ask Those Questions
In 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...
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E14 | Meeting People Where They're At
Our 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…
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E13 | I Would Like It If You Would Listen
In 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
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E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power
In 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...
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E11 | It's Not Gender Weird, It's Just Weird
In 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...
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E10 | She Protected Her Children From the Bear:
In 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...
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E9 | Buffering the Impacts of Discrimination:
In 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...
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E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers:
E8 | 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…
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E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux
Midwife 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 they've learned about body sovereignty from MoC people, the opportunity for rituals in the model of midwife...
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E6 | A Super Fierce Stance:
Today we are talking with Sara Flores-Boudreaux. They are 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...
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E5 | This Blessing Got Kind of Everywhere:
In 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…
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E3 | Possibility Models for Parenthood:
Mac 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…
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E2| Grow Your Own Parasite! Get Pregnant!:
The 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...
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Episode 1| Introduction to Masculine Birth Ritual
In 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...
About this show
Masculine 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.The podcast is just one season long and was recorded 7 years ago, so some of the recommended resources and sometimes even people's names or stories about themselves may have evolved. Because the show remains a valuable resource for people, it stays up! While there's no longer a Patreon for this project, if you'd like to send a "thank you" to the tip jar, you can do so here: https://buymeacoffee.com/groverwehmanbrown.
Hosted by
Grover Wehman-Brown