Birth Care for Every Body
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Maria is joined by Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, a Chicanx midwife and director of the Changing Woman Initiative, and Dr. Rachel Hardeman, a reproductive health equity researcher and a Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, for a conversation about inequity in birthing healthcare—particularly for women of color and the LGBTQ community. They discuss how to ground our ideas of parenthood in inclusive frameworks and the path towards reproductive justice. SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by Georgia Fort, award winning independent journalist and Tarkor Zehn, journalist and audio producer to discuss police violence, racial justice and healing in Minneapolis during the week that marks one year since the police murder of George Floyd. For more info and to RSVP, click here. This episode is sponsored by Ground News - The world's first news comparison platform. Download Ground News for free: http://ground.news/thick ITT Staff Picks: - This episode about Trans Motherhood for the TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones dives into how parenting is different for trans parents. - Jenni Monet writes for The Nation about the “systemic factors that hinder Native American maternal health—problems arising from a legacy of neglect regarding Indigenous life.” - In this personal essay for Vogue, journalist Natasha S. Alford writes about her pregnancy experience as a Black, high-risk expectant mom: “...when confronted with the overwhelming amount of choices that needed to be made for my own health, I quickly found myself confused, tousled around, and frustrated, by a medical system that takes a diagnostic rather than holistic approach to fetal and maternal care.” AP Photo/Darren Hauck
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| 0:00.0 | Birth moved out of the communities, went into an institution, and who was practiced on and mistreated the most were these communities of color. |
| 0:18.1 | Hey, what's up, fam? Welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture. From a FEOC perspective, I don't know. Today I think I got to say WOC perspective. Because it's a woman of color show today. I'm Maria Inoosa. Julio is taking the week off from recordings. So, yeah, it's me. And, you know, this past weekend, |
| 0:41.4 | we marked Mother's Day. Today is May 10th. And I am still celebrating because in Mexico, |
| 0:49.4 | today is Diaz de Mayo, which is the day of Las Madres. In Mexico, you celebrate May 10, no matter what day it falls. |
| 0:57.8 | We're going to talk about motherhood, being momas, health care, childbirth, and what it means |
| 1:04.2 | for women of color and also the trans community. |
| 1:07.3 | So from the Tewa territory of Santa Fe, New Mexico is Marina Venezuela Ferrell. |
| 1:13.7 | She's a Chicanex midwife and director of the Changing Woman Initiative. |
| 1:17.9 | Hey, Marina. |
| 1:18.8 | Hello. |
| 1:19.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:21.0 | Welcome, welcome. |
| 1:21.6 | And joining us from Minneapolis, Minnesota is Dr. Rachel Hardiman. |
| 1:26.5 | She's a reproductive health equity researcher |
| 1:28.9 | and a tenured associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. |
| 1:34.3 | Welcome, Rachel, and yes, for that tenure. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:37.2 | Thanks, Maria. Happy to be here. |
| 1:40.1 | You know, I have to be really honest with you. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm not a big fan of like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day. You know, I'm just not a big fan of kind of Hallmark holidays, even though I understand, you know, that they're important to a certain degree. |
| 1:59.0 | But interestingly, this year, like I found myself posting on my Instagram on my Twitter. I was like, oh my God, here I am with my mom. Here I am with my kids. I mean, I was surprised. And I think it's kind of my reaction, like, in the pandemic. Yep. You know, just kind of feeling like, oh, my God, I just want to celebrate anything that I can. |
| 2:27.5 | I think part of it is that, you know, I have a complex relationship to motherhood, to the concept of motherhood, to what's a good mother, what's a mother who's different. |
| 2:36.5 | Mothers who are gone, my best friend, I posted because I'm like, you're not here, but I'm a mother to your two kids. So it can be a lot for us. And as women of color, added on top of that. So before we dive into our conversation, |
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