EBB 270 - Intersectionality and Representation in Birth Work with Cheyenne Varner, Doula and Founder of The Educated Birth

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the EBB podcast, we talk with Cheyenne Varner, the founder of The Educated Birth, about intersectional reproductive health and the importance of birth education to be more inclusive and representative.

Cheyenne, is a professional certified birth and postpartum doula and founder of The Educated Birth. The Educated Birth creates intersectional reproductive health education content, from online articles to social media posts to digital and print teaching tools for reproductive health workers. Cheyenne also publishes Everyday Birth Magazine, a print and digital magazine with the same mission to make information and education about pregnancy and postpartum more inclusive.

Cheyenne shares her journey from nonprofit work to doula work to now finding herself as the founder of The Educated Birth and the publisher of Everyday Birth Magazine. We discuss the importance of how we talk about pregnancy, how it is shown in pop culture and how most often, images and stories of pregnancy and childbirth are not realistic, representative, or inclusive of real people and their communities. Cheyenne has a passion for making everyone feel safe, seen and protected during vulnerable times. This is evident in how she centers all of her projects in the support, protection and education of communities who have historically been excluded from storytelling and imagery within the birth space.

Resources:

Learn more about Cheyenne’s work at

· The Educated Birth

· Everyday Birth

· Life’s work Documentary

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· The Educated Birth

· Everyday Birth

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with
0:02.8	Cheyenne Varner a professional certified birth and postpart
0:06.4	Abdullah and the founder of the educated birth about
0:10.1	intersectional reproductive health and making birth education more inclusive.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast.
0:18.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Birth.
0:23.4	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information
0:27.6	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:31.2	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See EvieBirth.com
0:36.6	slash disclaimer for more details.
0:40.9	Hi everyone I am super excited for today's interview but before we get started I have a few quick
0:46.7	announcements first if you've been waiting to apply to the evidence-based birth
0:50.5	instructor program your weight is officially over.
0:54.3	We are now accepting applications for the program through the month of June.
0:58.4	The EBB instructor program is for experienced birth workers and health care workers who want to teach EBB classes
1:05.1	and workshops either online or in person. And this includes training and permission to teach the
1:10.6	official evidence-based birth childbirth class.
1:13.0	You can learn more and apply at EBbirth.com
1:17.0	slash instructor.
1:18.0	Second, our team has been hard at work behind the scenes
1:22.0	creating something really special for you. We have
1:25.0	created an official evidence-based birth podcast listening guide. This is a
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