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	<title>Birthcycle</title>
	<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com</link>
	<description>a feminist look at pregnancy, birth, fertility, contraception, plus assorted other topics</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Homophobia</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/27/homophobia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/27/homophobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not American, I&#8217;m Canadian, so that means that I live in a country with an integrated military, at least as regards sexualities. Heck, I play in a queer* concert band, and we played a joint concert called &#8220;Sounds Like Freedom&#8221; with the local army band ten years ago, in part because our conductor was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth and Breastfeeding in Season 1 of Lost</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/20/birth-and-baby-in-season-1-of-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/20/birth-and-baby-in-season-1-of-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There will, of course, be spoilers for Season 1, which is all I&#8217;ve watched so far. This is a warning re: such, and I&#8217;d really really appreciate it if you didn&#8217;t comment with spoilers for seasons *past* Season 1. Any such spoilers will a) make me all angry and annoyed, and b) not be approved. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminism and birth, said better than I could ever say it</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/18/feminism-and-birth-said-better-than-i-could-ever-say-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/18/feminism-and-birth-said-better-than-i-could-ever-say-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 21:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[rape culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When changing birth culture meets fighting rape culture - Spilt Milk gets this so right and says it so clearly. This is a must read. In particular, this is the part that really got my attention:
When a woman has a hand or an instrument inserted into her vagina whilst she screams and thrashes out her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting the Genitals of Children, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/17/cutting-the-genitals-of-children-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/05/17/cutting-the-genitals-of-children-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 07:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[attachment parenting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intactivism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I committed to writing a post a week for the month of May on the above topic, because I attended a session called Social Media, Social Justice at the Northern Voice 2010 conference, and we were asked to make a concrete commitment in some area of social justice that was near and dear to us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up!</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/02/15/9th-carnival-of-feminist-parenting-is-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/02/15/9th-carnival-of-feminist-parenting-is-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Mothers for Women&#8217;s Lib. Check it out!
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		<title>Links links and more links from your lackadaisical and unloquacious blogger</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/02/06/links-links-and-more-links-from-your-lackadaisical-and-unloquacious-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/02/06/links-links-and-more-links-from-your-lackadaisical-and-unloquacious-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cult of Mommon over at Letters from Gehenna. In general, read the whole post, but in particular, this bit:
The &#8220;gift&#8221; of motherhood is a trap, simultaneously erasing investment and effort and commitment and choice and dedication and making it unconscionable to express displeasure, talk about issues, have postpartum depression, express a realistic picture of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in the 1969 Edition of the &#8220;Textbook for Midwives&#8221; by Margaret F. Myles</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/28/found-in-the-1969-edition-of-the-textbook-for-midwives-by-margaret-f-myles/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/28/found-in-the-1969-edition-of-the-textbook-for-midwives-by-margaret-f-myles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When to Bear DownThe woman may be told to &#8220;push&#8221; when the presenting part appears at the vulva; to do so before then incurs the risk of the os not being fully dilated.
The natural urge to &#8220;bear down&#8221; is experienced by the woman when the presenting part reaches the pelvic floor, so then would seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The system is broken if it doesn&#8217;t leave people whole - Part 5</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/23/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-5/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/23/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous: Part 1: I maunder on about my experiences as a doula
Part 2: Statistics
Part 3: Illustrative Non-Fiction
Part 4: The more things don&#8217;t change
But then, I&#8217;m kind of an optimist. Or perhaps the better word would be idealist, although I think we are wrong as a society to say &#8220;idealist&#8221; with the kind of sneer. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The system is broken if it doesn&#8217;t leave people whole - Part 4</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/23/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/23/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously: Part 1: I maunder on about my experiences as a doula
Part 2: Statistics
Part 3: Illustrative Non-Fiction
I didn&#8217;t stop being interested. I hung around with a lot of unassisted birthers online. I didn&#8217;t stop reading or following research. The evidence for less interventions or for only appropriate usage of interventions keeps piling up, they reversed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The system is broken if it doesn&#8217;t leave people whole - Part 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously: Part 1: I maunder on about my experiences as a doula
Part 2: Statistics
The last birth I went to as a doula was for an aboriginal woman and her husband who had been referred by a friend of a friend. I met them, literally, outside the hospital&#8217;s door when they were going in for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The system is broken if it doesn&#8217;t leave people whole - Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously: Part 1: I maunder on about my experiences as a doula
I&#8217;m making this all sound a little grim, that&#8217;s because it is a grim business and the statistics bear that out. In British Columbia, where I live, the current c-section rate is over 30%. It&#8217;s not a stretch to suggest that for every three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The system is broken if it doesn&#8217;t leave people whole - Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2010/01/22/the-system-is-broken-if-it-doesnt-leave-people-whole-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The medical model of childbirth. Don&#8217;t doubt that it is broken, perhaps from the very beginning, right to the core.
When I was just getting started with this birthing thing I was pretty enthusiastic. I did a lot of reading. I wrote optimistic essays about birthing choices for my shockingly bad website. I tried to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not forget who actually delivered the baby</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/11/22/lets-not-forget-who-actually-delivered-the-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/11/22/lets-not-forget-who-actually-delivered-the-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw coverage on the news of a super fast unintended homebirth (17 minutes post-911 call), attended at the last moment by a police officer who lived in the neighborhood. The coverage took the tack that this sort of coverage always seems to take: Police Officer Delivers Baby! It is her first delivery! The police officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which I avoid my NaNoWriMo commitments by blogging</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/11/18/in-which-i-avoid-my-nanowrimo-commitments-by-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/11/18/in-which-i-avoid-my-nanowrimo-commitments-by-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In particular, I kind of felt like I needed to respond to a comment that&#8217;s been sitting in my moderation queue for far too long. As could have been predicted, posting critically about the topic of pornography in my Utopian Promise of Porn post induced at least one dude to feel the need to hugely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 out of ~350</title>
		<link>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/10/21/2-out-of-350/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.birthcycle.com/2009/10/21/2-out-of-350/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It just occurred to me that one of the odder anecdotes about my life that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve commonly recounted is that when I was a &#8220;troubled teen&#8221; with self-harming issues I was, out of the blue, given the opportunity to go to feminist girl camp (for girls 13-17, I think).
It was a couple [...]]]></description>
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