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Today, feminism means supporting women in whatever method of birth that they want.

Our culture tends to think about pregnancy in terms of the limitations it places on our bodies and lives, big and small. No

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When she called Kayla “fat and blundering,” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking about Kayla or about me. Sometimes I felt like she was laughing at me right to my face, like she and herself had become the “us” and I was the “them,” and the joke was that I didn’t know who was who. I figured that her comment was some kind of setup. She was trying

Reimagining our approach to mothering can birth its transformative potential. Day in and day out, this work can be our most consistent, embodied resistance to patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and the exploitation that underlies American capitalism.

Maybe women would finally be considered fully formed human beings, instead of off-brand men with defective genitals.

We have been trained to view our houses and apartments as private refuges, but they must also be seen for what they are: job sites where millions of dollars of the global economy are directly exchanged.

For all the talk of “empowered birth,” in American society mothers and expectant mothers have far less power than we should. Everything we do is measured against an impossible standard of what we ought to do, what is “best.” Variation is seen not simply for what it is, biological and cultural variety, but as a deviation from what is perceived as no