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Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Elizabeth McKeown [pronounced mick CUE en] is a writer, feminist, and natural childbirth advocate. Her book In Search of the Perfect Birth was published in 2011 and since then she has been an online presence and birth activist promoting re-education to women for childbirth liberation. Her whole life she has been a proponent for civil rights, including for women, homosexuals, and the gender nonconforming. Since her passion focuses on giving birth back to women, she has unwittingly found herself on the outside of some trans ideologies that believe that erasing "woman" from childbirth history is progress.
She believes there is still a way to be an ally to everyone without being dishonest about our designations and biology. This is especially important for women's rights and women's health, notably in childbirth freedom, where woman-erasing rhetoric is beginning to creep in. Elizabeth wants to prevent that from happening. In her online interactions she has noticed feminist pages as well as birth pages silencing the specifying of "woman" as the life-giver and of discussing anatomy in relation to male or female ownership, and recently the Midwives Alliance of North America has also begun changing it's language from "women" to "pregnant people". Elizabeth is pushing back to say that while women are still fighting for their freedom to escape patriarchal medical birth and other chains, they cannot possibly be oppressing others by naming themselves and by not allowing their identifying language to be erased and censored in order to cater to everyone other than women. Women's liberation, to her, still means centering those who are female and not being timid with those words.
She blogs at The Perfect Birth, is wrapping up her book on baby names, and is compiling notes for an upcoming feminist book. She has an author page at Elizabeth McKeown on Facebook.
She believes there is still a way to be an ally to everyone without being dishonest about our designations and biology. This is especially important for women's rights and women's health, notably in childbirth freedom, where woman-erasing rhetoric is beginning to creep in. Elizabeth wants to prevent that from happening. In her online interactions she has noticed feminist pages as well as birth pages silencing the specifying of "woman" as the life-giver and of discussing anatomy in relation to male or female ownership, and recently the Midwives Alliance of North America has also begun changing it's language from "women" to "pregnant people". Elizabeth is pushing back to say that while women are still fighting for their freedom to escape patriarchal medical birth and other chains, they cannot possibly be oppressing others by naming themselves and by not allowing their identifying language to be erased and censored in order to cater to everyone other than women. Women's liberation, to her, still means centering those who are female and not being timid with those words.
She blogs at The Perfect Birth, is wrapping up her book on baby names, and is compiling notes for an upcoming feminist book. She has an author page at Elizabeth McKeown on Facebook.
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