Miriam is a 25-year-old North Carolina native whose upbringing in a Cuban immigrant household was pretty far from Southern, although she does enjoy BBQ and the occasional Carolina basketball game. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Anthropology in 2006, immediately moved to Brooklyn NY and has since left the Big Apple for a slightly smaller fruit, Washington DC.
Miriam has been working in the reproductive justice movement for over five years, both online and off, including three years working with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
You might also know her as Radical Doula, where she blogs and bitches about the state of birthing rights in the US. Her writing has appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Nation, RH Reality Check and Alternet. Most recently Miriam’s work has been published in Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape and Sinister Wisdom: Latina Lesbians.
Miriam is on the Board of Directors of the Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. In 2009 she was named one of the Women’s Information Network’s (WIN) Young Women of Achievement.
- Barriers to Home Birth Fall in Washington State, RH Reality Check
- The Cost of Being Born at Home, RH Reality Check
- The Myth of the Election C-section, RH Reality Check
- Mi Companera, RH Reality Check
- On Labor Day Examining Birth, RH Reality Check
- Queering Reproductive Justice, RH Reality Check
- Being a Radical Doula, The Nation.com
- Accessing Choice, Campus Progress
