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When I told him “I study pleasure experienced during birth,” he said, “There’s no such thing.”
Here’s how it went down. I was a very large 6-months pregnant with my second baby with the audacity to travel to attend a conference on women’s sexual health. It was an incredibly illuminating experience. Sexual medicine professionals, mostly OB/GYNs, with a healthy...
New publication – Birth Pleasure: Meanings, Politics, and Praxis
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 volume...
The Birth Pleasure Study: All Systems Go.
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...
Soulflower take me flying with you: A birth, a rant, and a prayer
"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 countless times. I'm blessed to have been...
Oppressing Birth: Presentation @ CREGS Summer Institute, June 7, 2018
I'm so lucky I get to do what I do. I had a fantastic experience presenting at CREGS Summer Institute on Sexuality this week. It feels so good to start of a conversation knowing you're amongst your people. Zero percent of the room needed to be convinced or explained...
Belly Experiment / Tiny Rebellion
It's hot out. Ok, to be fair, technically it's like 74° but, with my molten core, it feels more like 104º. What happened to June Gloom over here? Typically, June in Oakland is kinda chilly, and I usually spend my birthday month freezing my buns off, wrapped in layers...
Pregnant in public
Walking down the sidewalk: "Wow! You look like you're ready to pop." Crossing the street: "You look like you're ready to pop." Waiting in line for the restroom: "You look like you're ready to pop." In line at a bakery: "You look like you're about ready to pop." In...
Putting it all out there as a very pregnant scholar
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...
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