Standing in the Fire with Activist Courtney Piper (Part 3 of 3 Emergency Series)
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
3.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Piper is a mother, birth attendant, activist, spiritual warrior, and director of Women Picket DC.
She brings to us today the truth of how patriarchy seeks to destroy and erode our intuition, and how our embodiment is the antidote.
We cannot afford not to speak out, and together, we dream of a woman-centered world where all are liberated.
This podcast is dedicated to Carla Hartley- a devoted homebirth midwife, mother, survivor, and mentor who pioneered the Ancient Art of Midwifery Institute. She is an inspiration in truth-telling, midwifery, and activism.
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| 0:00.0 | into the wild I'm going into the wild I am it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:17.2 | into the wild I'm going into the wild I am it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:30.4 | 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. |
| 0:40.9 | 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. |
| 0:51.9 | Here's your host Emily Faldin. |
| 1:22.9 | I am joined today by the inspiring activist and my friend Courtney Piper. |
| 1:30.9 | Courtney and I share strategies on how to harness the courage to do social justice work and we offer a call in to you my listeners to stand up and speak out against this war on women. |
| 1:43.9 | We have power in numbers we have truth on our side and what we do or do not do now will affect generations to come sisters come one come all as we find our voices and stand for the healing of this planet through the liberation of women and girls. |
| 2:01.9 | All right welcome to the show Courtney. Thank you for being here news welcome. Thank you for having me Emily. |
| 2:15.9 | So we wanted to actually before we before we frame the whole episode and get into our combo today we we recently received news that a mentor to both of us. |
| 2:26.9 | Carla Hartley has recently passed and and we want to dedicate this episode in this this time together to acknowledge her life and her work in the ways that she has has touched both of us. |
| 2:39.9 | Thank you Emily appreciate that so much and try to fight back the tears. |
| 2:43.9 | I know let's just let's just |
| 2:48.9 | come here. |
| 2:54.9 | So yeah I wanted to make sure that we dedicate this broadcast to Carla Hartley who is one of my most beloved mentors. |
| 3:03.9 | She is an elder midwife in the birthing community, a devoted home birth midwife. |
| 3:09.9 | She pioneered and created the ancient art |
| 3:13.4 | of Midwifery Institute and has trained thousands |
| 3:17.0 | of women in the art of Midwifery. |
| 3:19.1 | She is, I believe she's Texas-born and bred |
| 3:23.0 | and she's an early, early inspiration to me, |
| 3:27.2 | not only in Midwifery, but in truth-telling. |
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