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Fat Chicks on Top, a body liberation podcast We cover fatness, race, sex, gender, drag sex work, kink, relationships, geek stuff, and more!
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Guest: Christina Hughes (doula, pregnancy support)
While less than 2% of pregnant people choose planned out-of-hospital birth in the US, there are many studies comparing the safety of home birth and birth center births to hospital birth. Studies show that planned home or birth center births, for low-risk clients, attended by qualified midwives, are as safe, or safer than, hospital births. Overall, when birthing at home, interventions are reduced and satisfaction is increased. Decades of research studies continue to demonstrate the safety of out-of-hospital birth for low risk childbearing people.
- A 2021 study out of Washington state published in Obstetrics and Gynecology concluded that planned home births in Washington state had comparable safety outcomes to those in Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands, all locations that have long standing integration of midwives and home birth in their healthcare systems. This study also confirmed no difference in safety outcomes between midwife-attended planned home births and births in a state-licensed, freestanding birth center.
- The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group published a study on planned hospital birth versus planned home birth in September 2012 concluding that:
– Observational studies of increasingly better quality and in different settings suggest that planned home birth in many places can be as safe as planned hospital birth and with less intervention and fewer complications.
- A study out of McMaster University in Canada was published in September 2009, in the journal Birth comparing outcomes for midwife attended planned home births and midwife attended planned hospital births. That study concluded:
– All measures of serious maternal morbidity were lower in the planned home birth group as were rates for all interventions including cesarean section (5.2% vs 8.1%).
– Midwives who were integrated into the health care system with good access to emergency services, consultation, and transfer of care provided care resulting in favorable outcomes for people planning both home or hospital births. - A 2009 study published in BJOG: An International of Obstetrics & Gynaecology compared perinatal mortality and morbidity between planned home and planned hospital births among low-risk pregnancies, and found no difference in safety.
- A 2018 study published in PLOS ONE affirmed that integration of midwives into the healthcare system is associated with higher rates of physiologic birth, fewer interventions, and fewer adverse outcomes for babies. In addition, this study found that Washington state ranked highest in the United States for our level of integration.
- A 2014 study published in Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health reviewed outcomes for over 16,000 midwife-led planned home births from 2004 to 2009 in the United States. This prospective study compared safety data as well as rates of intervention to low-risk hospital births, and found that midwife-led home births were comparably safe to hospital births, while minimizing interventions.
- In a 2005 study, published in the British Medical Journal, evaluating the safety of home births in North America involving direct entry midwives, found that intervention rates were substantially lower than for low risk US clients having hospital births. The study concluded:
– Planned low risk home births in North America attended by certified professional midwives were associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States. - A report released in Birth in 2019 finds a continuing increase in the percentage of out-of-hospital births in the US. This study examines out-of-hospital birth trends from 2004 to 2017: “Trends and State Variations in Out-of-Hospital Births in the United States, 2004-2017”.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Guest: Lamya H (writer, activist)
Lamya H chronicles their journey to living fully as a nonbinary, queer, hijabi in the book Hijab Butch Blues. Their work employs stories from the Koran and how Lamya interprets these stories to amplify their own journey into full personhood. We chat queerness, Islam, gender, hijab, religion, place and so much more!
Their memoir has been billed as one of the best LGBTQ+ books of 2023 by multiple literary associations and is a stunning example of how memoir can be used to toggle between the deeply personal and the universal.
Sites & Socials
@LamyaIsAngry on Twitter and Instagram
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Amazing Hijabi make-up artist does Disney Princesses
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Monday Nov 20, 2023
Guest: Ragen Chastain (blogger, author, podcaster)
Ragan Chastian began debunking weight loss "science" in 2009. She originally just wanted to find the most effective diet for weight loss. What she found was over a centruy of bad research. It was so bad, she did her search a second time to verify she hadn't missed anything.
What she discovered is that most "weight loss" research limits its time period to less than two years. When participants began to regain weight, research simply stops and reports what happened in the first year. She discusses how current astroturf organizations (fake grass roots groups) continue to promote bunk science to further their profits.
We also chat about how the weight lost industry has co-opted the language of body liberationists to promote weight stigma and continue to get folks to risk their lives to be thin.
Sites and Socials
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Guest: Danni Adams (body image coach, influencer)
Danni Adams, body image coach and influencer in the body liberation space, joins Auntie Vice to chat about body liberation, the connection between fatphobia and anti-Blackness, food access, growing up poor, and so much more!
Sites and Socials
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Guest: Summer Innanen (Writer, Podcaster, Body Image Coach)
Summer Innannen, host and creater of Eat The Rules, offers her take on body image, healing your relationship with your body, and dealing with food over the holidays. We delve into how to handle relatives who still feel it necessary to comment on what we eat, how we look, and our "health" because of our size. She talks about her work and her own journey to reconcile with her own body.
Sites and Socials:
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Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Guest: Max Carey (film maker)
Max Carey joins Auntie Vice to chat about his new film Touch Kink. The film seeks to demystify the world of female dominatrix by profiling a number of working pros in the US, Canada, and England. Max chats about his journey as a film maker and as a kinky queer.
Sites and Socials
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Guest: Tristan Taormino (author, educator, film maker)
Tristan Taormino, preeminent sex educator and author, joins Auntie Vice to chat about her new memoir A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten. The memoir focuses largely on her relationship with her gay father. She chat about her career as a sex educator and a feminist porn producer, depression, and her new, energizing relationship in her 50s.
Sites and Socials
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaning Open Relationships
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women
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Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Guest: Janet Hardy (author, publisher, educator, awesome human)
Janet Hardy, author of epic works including The Ethical Slut, The New Topping Book, and Radical Exstacy, joins Auntie Vice to chat about her new memoir Notes From an Aging Pervert. In this memoir, Janet reflects on her life as a genderqueer, BDSM and polyamous pioneer. She gives readers insight into her aging process and her new phase of life.
We cover everything from being released from our meat suits (dying), to riding the sex train to the end of the line, to the joys of not having to worry constantly about money.
Books by Janet Hardy
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Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Guest: Isabelle Miller (Model, Influencer)
Isabelle Miller, successful OnlyFans and Instagram model and influencer, joins Auntie Vice to chat about being a larger, dark-skinned model who has acheived success on OnlyFans and IG.
Sites and Socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabellemillerx/, https://www.instagram.com/bellemillerofficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IsabelleMillr
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsisabellemiller
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@IsabelleMiller/
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Guest: Cheyenne Davis (writer, content creator)
Cheyenne Davis joins Auntie Vice to chat about fat representation in media. They cover the good (limited), the bad (a lot), and all things animated. There is an extended chat about anime, Studio Ghilbi, Sailor Moon, and the lack of positive fat representation in the genre. They then chat about good representation (The Bear, Fat Vampire).
Cheyenne discusses dating while fat and seeking medical help. The prevasive anti-fat bias in medicine is very apparent in her own journey.
Sites and Socials
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