Author: Admin
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Sex-based language: vital for women’s rights
But avoiding words such as ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ – sexed words, for females – hides the power imbalance. When you no longer speak about biological sex, the physiological, psychological and rights-based differences that affect women are rendered invisible.
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Why as midwives we oppose paediatric transition
We support healthy expressions of sexuality and reproductive choice. Teenagers should be allowed to go through puberty, and develop sexual feelings, expression and behaviour, including homosexuality and gender non-conformity. In most cases it is the process of puberty and understanding your sexuality and adult body that resolves gender dysphoria. It is vital…
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March with Midwives – Inclusion and Exclusion
Anna is a midwife and part of the With Woman collective. She writes about the challenges facing midwifery in the UK; the grassroots movement March with Midwives; and their exclusion of women who hold and express feminist beliefs. This article was first published on Womans Place UK on 28th November 2021…
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‘Men, non-binary, or something else’….No, AIMS. Sorry. They’re all ‘women’.
When it comes to knowing your choices during pregnancy, birth and afterwards, if you’re in the UK, you need AIMS, the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services. For over 60 years, they’ve pioneered a woman-centred approach to maternity care. AIMS has always recognised this work as political. Of course…
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Open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team
Please sign our letter to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) This is an open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team in support of their recent strategy document, in which they explain why they feel it is important to retain the word ‘woman’ when delivering…
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Families do not breastfeed, mothers do…and we need to say so
Madeleine Munzer Sydney, Australia This article was first published in World Nutrition https://worldnutritionjournal.org/ind…/wn/article/view/825 It seems obvious that support for mothers is central to global breastfeeding advocacy. The Global Breastfeeding Collective, WHO and UNICEF all emphasise the importance of supporting mothers to breastfeed their infants (World Health Organization, 2018b; Global Breastfeeding…
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Mothers. They matter – however they identify. Here’s why.
Earlier this month, an Open Letter (read the full text of it here) from a collective of UK LGBTQ+ perinatal workers was published, as a ‘means to have a voice’ for inclusion. This is our response. We too are a collective. We are feminist perinatal workers, mainly in the UK,…
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‘…and pregnant people’ ? Nope. Nope. And all the nopity nope.
Here’s why ‘adding more ink’ to the words ‘women’ and ‘mothers’ still works against women – but, you know, thanks for trying… ‘At least they’ve kept in the word ‘woman’ there,’ said my friend. I’d sent her a recent NCT tweet which expressed how the parent support charity are all…
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