On international day of the midwife we focus on caring for ourselves with student midwife Madyasa Vijber. Madyasa is doing her final internship in midwifery, is a doula, and is regularly involved in feminist and anti-racist activism in the Neth

Contraction IV: Inequity with Bahareh Goodarzi

Mar 26th, 2021 35m 4s

Bahareh Goodarzi is a midwife, teacher and researcher at the Midwifery Science department of Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. She has started two councils on diversity, inclusivity and anti-discrimination, one at the academy for midwifery in Ams

Contraction III: Obstetric Violence with Michelle Sadler

Feb 23rd, 2021 32m 58s

dr. Michelle Sadler is one of the forefront academics and activists globally fighting obstetric violence. Sadler argues for the importance of recognizing obstetric violence and calling it out as such. She is an associate researcher at the Adol

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Intermezzo: Contractions' Origin

Jan 15th, 2021 15m 58s

Contractions is produced by researcher and midwife Rodante van der Waal and podcast producer Vinny Tailor. It originated from a three-year international Twinning program between Iceland and The Netherlands Twinning Up North wherein Inga María T

Contraction II: Crisis with Rebecca Ashley

Dec 15th, 2020 34m 48s

Rebecca Ashley is a midwife and researcher studying the connection between neoliberal financial crises and the crisis of midwifery work. She imagines what a socialist model of midwifery care could be. Further reading The Albany model of midwife

Contraction I: Power/Knowledge with Elizabeth Newnham

Nov 16th, 2020 32m 21s

dr. Elizabeth Newnham is a midwife, researcher and teacher at Griffith University, Australia. She studies the way in which power and knowledge function in obstetrics from a Foucauldian framework. She is the author of the book Towards the Humin

Contraction 1: Power/Knowledge - Elizabeth Newnham

Nov 15th, 2020 32m 21s

In our first contraction Elizabeth Newnham focusses on the constellation of power and knowledge in midwifery and obstetrics. Newnham is a midwife and academic researcher and teacher at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author

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