Posts Tagged radical doula

Feministing at 10: it seems like everyone you know is a doula

Ed. note: In celebration of Feministing’s 10-year anniversary, current and former members of the Feministing crew are offering their reflections on the changes of the last decade. Here is a take on the growth of the doula movement from editor emeritus Miriam Perez. Read the whole series here. And consider giving us a birthday donation to ensure Feministing is around for another 10 years. 

My first ever guest post on Feministing was about being a radical doula, and it predated my Radical Doula blog and almost all of the writing I’ve done. So it makes sense that when the Feministing crew asked me to reflect on the past decade, I would choose the doula movement.

I wrote ...

Ed. note: In celebration of Feministing’s 10-year anniversary, current and former members of the Feministing crew are offering their reflections on the changes of the last decade. Here is a take on the growth of the ...

Thank you Thursdays: Miriam Z. Perez

It’s been a few months since our beloved editor Miriam Perez left the mix here at Feministing–and she has been busy while she’s been gone! First, she crowd funded to create a Radical Doula guide which she has been hard at work on, then she helped run this kick-ass Mother’s Day  Day campaign for the Strong Families Initiative and now, she’s giving TED talks on her important work as a radical doula.

Watch The Business (our nickname for Miriam) shine here at DePaul’s TEDx conference.

As this talk makes clear, Miriam is more than an advocate for women who need support with their reproductive decisions–when she talks about compassion, she means it. Having known her and been friends with her for a few ...

It’s been a few months since our beloved editor Miriam Perez left the mix here at Feministing–and she has been busy while she’s been gone! First, she crowd funded to create a Radical Doula guide which she has ...