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Gender Parenting & Family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

My intention was always to go back to my binders as soon as I was done nursing my son. But the longer I waited, and the longer they sat there in my drawer, tucked in with my socks and underwear, the more they became less a sense of self that waited to be reclaimed and more a lurking, almost ominous presence that filled me with anxiety every time I thought about going to put one on.

A photo of a brown-skinned pregnant person seated on a sofa with one hand cradling their belly while a person in a white lab coat, also brown-skinned, holds a stethoscope over their belly.
Health

NY Needs More Midwives: Here’s How You Can Help

The violence against Black and Indigenous birthing people is intergenerational violence and trauma happening in real time, in each birth. Healing it – by making midwifery more accessible for more people, in the contexts and environments that are centered on the comfort, care, respect, and empowerment of birthing people – is one deeply important step forward in creating that world.