Why Don’t We Report Assault in Sex and Birth?
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and Cesarean Awareness Month. Content warning: sexual assault, sexualization of children, birth assault, and traumatic birth There are two traumas...
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How to File a Complaint for Mistreatment During Childbirth: *Scholarships...
I know I’ve said this before but… This community rocks. Last week as we were rolling out the “How to File a Complaint” manual, the group Life After 4th Degree Tears (private Facebook support group is...
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An Experience of Racism: As a Patient, Employee, and Advocate
As the world begins to find its way back to normalcy, it saddens me that the COVID-19 pandemic is still having devastating effects on the Black community. But as a Black woman who is a victim of...
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A Woman Provider Normalizes Obstetric Violence on Social Media
Today I came across this video post by Sarah Wild, CRNA, who says her intention on Instagram is to “set an example for young women, moms & wives to be the best version of themselves and enjoy...
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Secondary Trauma and Birth Advocacy
Please read our companion article to this piece, “Birth Trauma, Obstetric Violence, and the Human Cost of Caring,” on the Obstetric Violence Blog, Durham University (U.K.). Thank you to the brilliant...
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Birth in Rape Culture
Join the waitlist for our new course, Obstetric Violence: What It Is and What Community Can Do About it, opening January 2022 Foreword I wrote this article to publish in 2017 and never got it out. Now...
View ArticleAlabama Birth Centers: Action Call
Today, July 13, 2023, is the much-anticipated hearing in Montgomery, Alabama, about proposed birth center regulations in a state where there are currently zero. As folks flood the hearing in person,...
View ArticleFake Hospital Birth Centers: Sutter Health Bait & Switch?
Warning: parts of the following birth story may be very difficult to read, especially if you have experienced birth trauma or sexual trauma. For years, hospitals around the U.S. have co-opted the...
View ArticleExposing the Role of Labor and Delivery Nurses as Active Bystanders in...
Hot off the presses: The first paper published on obstetric violence in the U.S.’ #1 perinatal nursing journal, Nursing for Women’s Health. Out August 13, 2023, Exposing the Role of Labor and Delivery...
View ArticleWe Are Now a Licensed Continuing Education Provider
Birth Monopoly is excited to announce we are now a licensed Continuing Education Provider approved through the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, able to provide nursing contact hours...
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