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Synopsis: Diasporic nurse scholar Dr. Favorite Iradukunda studied in Rwanda, South Africa and the United States. She is a global nurse leade...
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Childbirth is supposed to be empowering, but for many birthing people it is not. For Indigenous women, immigrant women and women of colour, birthing within the western healthcare system can...

Synopsis: Diasporic nurse scholar Dr. Favorite Iradukunda studied in Rwanda, South Africa and the United States. She is a global nurse leade...

Synopsis: Experiencing a “high risk” pregnancy and birth while growing a new life during the pandemic was transformative for Wiradjuri write...

Synopsis: Dr. Sapna Samant, is a GP, radio producer, film maker, activist, and single adoptive parent and is passionately committed to socia...

Synopsis: Melbourne-based artist and cultural leader Aseel Tayah was born and raised in Jerusalem and is passionate about the role of the ar...

Synopsis: How do Indigenous communities weave together ancestral feminine lineages? This question is at the heart of Associate Professor Sar...

Synopsis: Birthing holds a different significance for Indigenous communities that have experienced colonial attempts at elimination. For sch...

Synopsis: For Professor Cath Chamberlain, babies are a gift from the ancestors and birth is a critical life event. But what if this time is...

Synopsis: What does it mean to be part of a community without access to your birthing stories? Dr Jacynta Krakouer, a Mineng Noongar social...

Synopsis: Historian Carla Pascoe Leahy was surprised at how her own experiences of new motherhood were affected by the relationships and sto...

Synopsis: In countries where development has been tied to nation building, birthing more than one child has been viewed as antithetical to ‘...

Synopsis: Decentring whiteness and decolonising birthwork are central to Janelle Da Silva’s life and work. By challenging spiritual bypassin...

Synopsis: What if you thought pregnancy was going to be easy, a breeze? You had even planned an overseas holiday – but then suddenly, pregna...

Synopsis: It’s tough negotiating the highly technocratic spaces of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a hospital – let alone as the qu...

Synopsis: As a US-based Black nurse-midwife, Lucinda Canty knows that nurses and midwives do not leave their prejudices at home. Implicit as...

Synopsis: Mparntwe (Alice Springs) midwife Cherisse Buzzacott has achieved a number of firsts. She was first in her family to graduate from...

This is the trailer for season three of the Birthing and justice podcast. This podcast is for anyone who is interested in helping to transfo...

Synopsis: To Eleanor Jackson, pregnancy and childbirth are formative practical, philosophical, and social experiences that connect us to lif...

Episode Synopsis: To Helen Ngo, birthing matters because it’s transformative – for new parents and communities as well as newborns themselve...

Episode Synopsis: Nisha Khot’s experience of working in women’s health in India made her determined to make a difference in the field. Dr Kh...

Episode Synopsis: Annabel Farry's forte is in finding a balance between the personal and political, theory and practice, embodied time...

So often, health professionals focus on the baby, but birthing parents need nurturing, continuity and community too. Restoring power to Blac...

Episode Synopsis: Racism is a distraction from flourishing, says Associate Professor Donna Cormack, a Māori academic whose work attempts to...

Episode Synopsis: Storm and Gina talk about working at “The Women’s” (Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne). The Women’s has a complex history...

This is the trailer for season two of the Birthing and justice podcast. This podcast is for anyone who is interested in helping to transform...

Synopsis: Dr Mimi Niles has described healthcare as a very large, vast, deeply problematic institution. The New York-based midwife and acade...

Episode synopsis: What role does community play in childbirth? And why has childbirth become centered on the western hospital system? Karel...

Episode synopsis: Difference, writes Dr Naomi Simmonds, has always been intricately woven into the fabric of her life. A Maori woman, a moth...

How many of you have been told that childbirth is the most natural of processes? That you’re strong and powerful, and that you’ve got this....