Miriam Zoila Pèrez
Freelance Race and Gender Writer; Doula
Miriam Zoila Pérez is a writer, doula, and advocate focusing on the unique intersections of race and gender. In 2007, she founded the website Radical Doula, chronicling her experiences as a queer, Latina, pro-choice doula and helping found a movement of full-spectrum doulas bringing a compassionate and nonjudgmental approach to pregnancy and childbirth. From this came her book, The Radical Doula Guide: A Political Primer for Full-Spectrum Pregnancy and Childbirth Support. Pérez is a freelance journalist for Talking Points Memo, The Nation, Fusion, and The American Prospect, among others. She is the gender columnist at Colorlines, co-hosts the Latino music podcast “Radio Menea,” and is a former editor at Feministing.com.
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