The HisTerical Society Feminist Podcast

Dr. DeShawn Taylor joins the podcast to discuss her book Undue Burden: A Black, Woman Physician on Being Christian and Pro-Abortion in the Reproductive Justice Movement.   In this first half of our conversation, Dr. DeShawn helps us deconstruct some of the societal myths that we have been burdened with over time with facts as well as her experience providing abortion care over the years.  

We discuss how pro-choice rhetoric does not advance our needs, but rather perpetuates the stigma that surrounds abortion that we have been spoon-fed by white christian patriarchy.  She explains the Reproductive Justice Movement and how it provides a more comprehensive framework for a healthy society.    

Listen as she takes ME through her deconstruction process with my OWN internalized narrative about my OWN abortion.  It's like a mini-therapy session.. she really helped me release some of my own shame that I didn't even realize was bottled up!  

For more information about Dr. Taylor's clinic:  www.desertstarfp.com; Her non-profit for tax-deductible donations:  www.desertstarfp.org; or for consulting/political activism:  www.healthjusticmd.net
Undue Burden is available where all books are sold.  Here is the Amazon link:  https://a.co/d/46sgHm2

Andrea Gallegos now runs the Alamo Women's Clinics of Albuquerque and Illinois after physically relocating clinics from RED states Oklahoma and Texas last year.  She shares the pivot story so they can continue to help people in need, and explains how the landscape differs in states with abortion protections.  

Links to her clinic's website:  https://alamowomensclinic.com/

Rev. Deneen Robinson is a State Policy Strategist with RH Impact, fka National Birth Equity Collaborative.  She is also a pastor at Unitarian Universalist Church of OakCliff in the Dallas, TX area.  

In this episode, we get an update of what it's like to be pregnant in Texas in this Dobbs reality.  We also discuss the need to stop working in silos and to work across all progressive issues especially if we want to protect other rights that are under threat since the loss of Roe v Wade.  

https://birthequity.org/

We chat with male allies Ted, Chuck and Lee about misogyny, fascism, racism and toxic masculinity..  all in under 30 minutes!  Phew..  

Part 2 of the behind the scenes peek into the production of the award-winning pro-choice documentary WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!, which was filmed in the Summer of 2022, before and just after Roe v Wade was overturned.  We discuss the production timeline and topics that came up that we would like to cover further in future podcast episodes.  

Peek behind the scenes into the production of the award-winning pro-choice documentary WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!, which was filmed in the Summer of 2022, before and just after Roe v Wade was overturned.