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Under the Hood

Dec 19, 2018

This week Patti and Aleks are getting reverently irreverent in a special LIVE recording with Angela Garbes, author of the must read book "Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy." This conversation touches on everything from pregnancy and placentas to loss and body image, as well...


Dec 12, 2018

Dr. Britta Bushnell holds a doctorate in mythological studies and studies the ways we wrap ourselves in stories and myth to understand who we are. She is a storyteller, a listener, and a communication guide, and she applies these skills in her work as an award winning childbirth educator.  How we navigate the transition...


Dec 5, 2018

G-strings. Guts and gore. A patient cut open on an operating table. All were acceptable in the eyes of Instagram, Facebook, and their millions of users, but images of birth? Not allowed. Too "unpleasant." Katie Vigos was brave enough to ask, WHY? When she recognized this double standard on Instagram, she set out to...


Nov 28, 2018

Patti and Aleks sit down with CEO and Co-Founder of Dame Products, Alex Fine, to talk about the relationship between meditation and masturbation, packaged sexuality, and what presence in our own experience of pleasure can do for us. It's more than you think.
 


Nov 21, 2018

Patti and Chelsea sit down with Aleks to get a midwife's perspective on some of the topics we've been taking Under the Hood. We're talking "conception control" options, what kinds of contraception we've all tried, and the power of knowing how your body works.