Foreword: Loretta Ross
Preface: Creating Change Through Kindness
Different Kinds of Doulas
The Beginning
- A Really Great Idea: Our Origin Story
- I’m a Doula: Mary & Maria
Flash Chapter
How to Use Your Birth Doula Training…and How Not To
Doulas for Doulas
- Before and After: Kat & Kim
- Here for You, Here for Me: Kira & Lauren
- Walking Gracefully Through an Operating Room: Whitney
- Take My Hand Now: Lauren & Dee
Flash Chapter
How to Pack a (Full Spectrum) Doula Bag
Ambiguous Losses
- Look Away: Mary, Lauren, & Sonam
- Open and Closed: Lauren, Mary, & Kiya
Flash Chapter
- How to Talk to the Press
A Crisis of Self-Care
- Too Much to Give: Symone & Carol
- Burning Out and Coming Back: Annie
Flash Chapter
How to Self-Care
Direct Care and Activism
- The Deep End: Theresa & Danika
- Activist Practice: Kale & Vicki
Flash Chapter
How to Build a Full Spectrum Model
Afterword: Once a Doula, Always a Doula
Acknowledgements
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Mary Mahoney, LMSW, is a full spectrum doula and Founder and Board
Co-Chair of The Doula Project. She has served hundreds of pregnant
people across the spectrum of choice and trained activists, doulas,
clinicians, and medical students around the country on the abortion
doula model of care. Mary is the former Assistant Director of the
Pro-Choice Public Education Project, and a graduate of the
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She is currently
a licensed social worker, focused on the intersection of trauma and
child development.
Over the past eight years, Mary has been a key player in several
reproductive justice-focused coalitions and think tanks. In one
notable role, she was appointed to the Women’s Health and
Leadership Network at the Center for American Progress in 2010
where she, as the sole service provider, helped inform national
reproductive and economic justice policy.
Mary has published pieces for the Center for American Progress and
RH Reality Check and contributed to several reproductive justice
briefing books and research reports, including On Our Terms: Young
Women of Color, Reproductive Justice, and Activism and the
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive
Justice and Social Change. She has spoken about reproductive
justice and full spectrum doula care at conferences and workshops
around the country. Mary is currently based in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, New York.
Lauren Mitchell, M.S., has been working to change the culture of
medicine for the better part of a decade. In addition to being a
full-spectrum doula and founder of The Doula Project, she is a
certified Gynecological Teaching Associate, teaching medical and
nurse practitioner students to be able to perform gentle,
patient-centered physical examinations, and a teacher of literature
and the humanities in medical school settings.
As a co-coordinator of the Reproductive Choices Service of New York
City's largest public hospital, she has been able to infuse an
extremely medicalized system with compassionate patient care. She
is a graduate of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia
University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in medical humanities
at Vanderbilt.
Lauren is a well-known and established speaker and trainer in the
fields of reproductive justice and medical humanities, and has
presented for a wide variety of organizations including NAF, NAPW,
the Abortion Access Network, NOW (National and Regional Summits),
FemSex, Hampshire College, Columbia University, the Barnard Center
for Research on Women, among many others. She currently lives in
Nashville, TN.
Human and women's rights activist Loretta Ross co-founded and
served as National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color
Reproductive Justice Collective, a network that organizes women of
color in the reproductive justice movement. In fact, Ross is one of
the creators of the term "Reproductive Justice," which envelops
human rights and social justice into one movement. In 2004, Ross
served as National Co-Director of the March for Women’s Lives in
Washington DC. It became the largest protest march in US history
with more than one million participants.
Ross is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize
for Reproductive Justice and author of The Color of Choice”
chapter in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence published in
2006. She has also written extensively on the history of African
American women and reproductive justice activism.
Mary Mahoney, LMSW, is a full spectrum doula and Founder and Board Co-Chair of The Doula Project. She has served hundreds of pregnant people across the spectrum of choice and trained activists, doulas, clinicians, and medical students around the country on the abortion doula model of care. Mary is the former Assistant Director of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project, and a graduate of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She is currently a licensed social worker, focused on the intersection of trauma and child development. Over the past eight years, Mary has been a key player in several reproductive justice-focused coalitions and think tanks. In one notable role, she was appointed to the Women's Health and Leadership Network at the Center for American Progress in 2010 where she, as the sole service provider, helped inform national reproductive and economic justice policy. Mary has published pieces for the Center for American Progress and RH Reality Check and contributed to several reproductive justice briefing books and research reports, including On Our Terms: Young Women of Color, Reproductive Justice, and Activism and the Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change. She has spoken about reproductive justice and full spectrum doula care at conferences and workshops around the country. Mary is currently based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Lauren Mitchell, M.S., has been working to change the culture of medicine for the better part of a decade. In addition to being a full-spectrum doula and founder of The Doula Project, she is a certified Gynecological Teaching Associate, teaching medical and nurse practitioner students to be able to perform gentle, patient-centered physical examinations, and a teacher of literature and the humanities in medical school settings. As a co-coordinator of the Reproductive Choices Service of New York City's largest public hospital, she has been able to infuse an extremely medicalized system with compassionate patient care. She is a graduate of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in medical humanities at Vanderbilt. Lauren is a well-known and established speaker and trainer in the fields of reproductive justice and medical humanities, and has presented for a wide variety of organizations including NAF, NAPW, the Abortion Access Network, NOW (National and Regional Summits), FemSex, Hampshire College, Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, among many others. She currently lives in Nashville, TN. Human and women's rights activist Loretta Ross co-founded and served as National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a network that organizes women of color in the reproductive justice movement. In fact, Ross is one of the creators of the term "Reproductive Justice," which envelops human rights and social justice into one movement. In 2004, Ross served as National Co-Director of the March for Women's Lives in Washington DC. It became the largest protest march in US history with more than one million participants. Ross is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice and author of "The Color of Choice" chapter in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence published in 2006. She has also written extensively on the history of African American women and reproductive justice activism.
"Eye-opening… Throughout, the authors' stories are vivid,
absorbing, and informative. A gripping chronicle that will be
especially useful for expectant or aspirational mothers.”
—Kirkus
"Thoughtful... The writing is clear, and the message is too:
reproductive justice for the poor starts with the “quiet brand of
activism” of one-on-one support and telling other people’s
stories." —Publishers Weekly
"Honest, raw, and charged. . . . The Doulas is part memoir, part
how-to manual, and part political treatise. . . . It’s a
well-crafted, comprehensive, and compelling mix." —Rewire
"Eye-opening
Throughout, the authors' stories are vivid,
absorbing, and informative. A gripping chronicle that will be
especially useful for expectant or aspirational mothers.”
Kirkus
"Thoughtful... The writing is clear, and the message is too:
reproductive justice for the poor starts with the quiet brand of
activism” of one-on-one support and telling other people’s
stories." Publishers Weekly
"Honest, raw, and charged. . . . The Doulas is part memoir, part
how-to manual, and part political treatise. . . . It’s a
well-crafted, comprehensive, and compelling mix." Rewire
"Eye-opening... Throughout, the authors' stories are vivid, absorbing, and informative. A gripping chronicle that will be especially useful for expectant or aspirational mothers." --Kirkus "Thoughtful... The writing is clear, and the message is too: reproductive justice for the poor starts with the "quiet brand of activism" of one-on-one support and telling other people's stories." --Publishers Weekly "Honest, raw, and charged. . . . The Doulas is part memoir, part how-to manual, and part political treatise. . . . It's a well-crafted, comprehensive, and compelling mix." --Rewire
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