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A review by sweekune
Supporting Queer Birth by AJ Silver
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
5/5
A fantastic resource for anyone working with people going through the childbearing continuum or parenting stage of life. Supporting Queer Birth offers a wealth of support, advice and perspectives to the reader in supporting queer and trans people through this life altering process.
- This book is so massively important and covers well and in depth the issues faced by LGBTQ+ people in reproductive and parenting circles. Silver draws on their experiences as a doula and baby wearing consultant as well as citing many research sources and including interviews with queer and trans birthworkers and parents. This brings such an amazing wealth of information and makes this book incredibly valuable.
- The book is well formatted with chapters devoted to particular subjects, such as language and its impact on patient engagement and experience, reproductive and parenting processes that individuals may go through to become a parent, visibility (or lack thereof) of queer and trans individuals in these spaces and so much more.There are also intersectional parts including chapters on queer and minority, neurodivergent and disabled groups. Supporting contains a central message throughout: society and these systems need to change, become more inclusive, respectful and listen to the voices of minorities when talking about things that are relevant to them.
- More qualitatively, this book made me feel seen. At the time I read this,I had recently experienced pregnancy loss and as a parent, queer person and midwife, this book made me feel deeply. I felt anger, joy, happiness, frustration but all this was coalesced into this urge to change this and to do better for my entire community and for myself. This book sparked passion and determination and I hope to be able to use what I've learned to make my work and my circle better.
This book should absolutely be compulsory for every birthworker or professional supporting parents. Resources like this are vital for improving our services and making them better fit for the populations we care for. Queer & trans people exists, have pregnancies, have families and we would be able to give them the best care.
A fantastic resource for anyone working with people going through the childbearing continuum or parenting stage of life. Supporting Queer Birth offers a wealth of support, advice and perspectives to the reader in supporting queer and trans people through this life altering process.
- This book is so massively important and covers well and in depth the issues faced by LGBTQ+ people in reproductive and parenting circles. Silver draws on their experiences as a doula and baby wearing consultant as well as citing many research sources and including interviews with queer and trans birthworkers and parents. This brings such an amazing wealth of information and makes this book incredibly valuable.
- The book is well formatted with chapters devoted to particular subjects, such as language and its impact on patient engagement and experience, reproductive and parenting processes that individuals may go through to become a parent, visibility (or lack thereof) of queer and trans individuals in these spaces and so much more.There are also intersectional parts including chapters on queer and minority, neurodivergent and disabled groups. Supporting contains a central message throughout: society and these systems need to change, become more inclusive, respectful and listen to the voices of minorities when talking about things that are relevant to them.
- More qualitatively, this book made me feel seen. At the time I read this,I had recently experienced pregnancy loss and as a parent, queer person and midwife, this book made me feel deeply. I felt anger, joy, happiness, frustration but all this was coalesced into this urge to change this and to do better for my entire community and for myself. This book sparked passion and determination and I hope to be able to use what I've learned to make my work and my circle better.
This book should absolutely be compulsory for every birthworker or professional supporting parents. Resources like this are vital for improving our services and making them better fit for the populations we care for. Queer & trans people exists, have pregnancies, have families and we would be able to give them the best care.