by elisabethbolaza | Aug 5, 2020 | academic publications, articles
I’m thrilled to announce that my article Birth Pleasure: Meanings, Politics, and Praxis has been included in the most recent publication of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, which has recently shifted to an online open-access format. Download the entire...
by elisabethbolaza | Aug 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Friends and colleagues, I am happy to announce that The Birth Pleasure Study has received final approval from my academic advisors and the ethical review board at the California Institute of Integral Studies. I now have the green light to recruit participants for my...
by elisabethbolaza | Aug 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Back in the day, when things were cool… all we needed was…” I was born free, at home. I’ve carried that knowing in my bones. My mother’s third birth, I emerged around dawn on the summer solstice. It’s a story I’d heard...
by elisabethbolaza | Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here I want to collapse the spaces between the biological and the social, the people and academe, with regard to how we think about birth, mamas, sexuality, culture, and giving life. Here I plan to be irreverent to presently dominant forces while bowing in reverence...