doulaproject.org

We are recruiting new doulas to join our project in NYC! Applications are due May 14, 2012. Click here to apply!

People with experience in doula work, reproductive health, rights and justice work, abortion counseling or health services are encouraged to apply. People of color, queer and trans people, and Spanish speakers are strongly desired. People with flexible/free weekdays are ideal.

A complete job description is available here.

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I’m still fairly new to this whole reproductive rights scene as an advocate, not just a participant. In the past I’ve only been concerned with my own choices. Now I continually get to discuss other people’s journeys and their choices. As an activist and as a doula, I get to stand with these people. My own personal choices take a backseat, as I become absorbed in every one's rights, not just my own. I got to have my first in-depth birth control talk this week.

A lovely woman, mother and wife went through a vacuum aspiration that she had kept private from her husband. She is primarily a Spanish speaker, but could see I am definitely (and unfortunately) not, so we were both patient with each other as we chatted in the recovery room. I asked why she wanted to start using birth control pills and if she felt like it would be easy implementing them into her daily routine. Pills were just what she was most familiar with though she had never used them before. I suggested she think about some of the other methods available especially if birth control was something her husband did not agree with and she felt would be a secret.  She went home with more information and she earnestly said she would think about this decision more.