Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while,

I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home. Into the wild I'm going into the wild I head. It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots

back home. Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast. This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices in birth, motherhood, and beyond.

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative,

we'll explore the politics of birth and we'll analyze everything that relates to

our lives as women from a feminist perspective. Here's your host, Emily Salder.

It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I love my rules back home. I have a fierce episode for you today with the epically powerful Dominique Christina, a spoken word poet, writer, mother, and a radical

feminist, Dominique shares her life story of owning her voice and committing to

truth-telling.

Get ready to interrogate, unpack, and detonate

with today's unapologetic guest.

Domini Christina, born to really brilliant folks, really brilliant folks, really talented, gifted and talented folks,

overachieving folks, walk on water folks,

history-making folks, like for real, it's not hyperbole.

And to be born into that context is quite something.

There's a lot of privilege in it. There's a lot of access in it.

And a lot of resources that aren't always available to folks who look like me in it.

And the bar is always super high and it's never lowered for anyone or for any reason.

There's no circumstance by which the folks in my family would accept

mediocrity for many of us. I think I think I by the time I was a teenager I think I by the time I was a teenager I figured out how to benefit from that.

I think I figured out that like even though it was stressful and at times felt pretty thankless because I had a grandmother who

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