{"id":9,"date":"2025-10-02T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:45:57","slug":"what-do-pizza-and-motorcycles-have-in-common-a-doula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/what-do-pizza-and-motorcycles-have-in-common-a-doula\/","title":{"rendered":"What do pizza and motorcycles have in common? A doula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My 79\u2032 Goldwing with some of its friends
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Most doula websites seem to be ultra-fem; soft images, pretty colors, gendered language, and hetero couples. That’s fine, there’s no shade on those type of sites. It seems like they all follow an invisible pull to arrange their sites in all the same way. There\u2019s always a big picture in the header, often with a pregnant person, or their own face. Also why is there so much pink? Now I\u2019m not anti-pink, because a color has no inherent meaning, meaning is dictated by society. But it\u2019s curious that all the doula sites look the same. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s the case of the blind leading the blind or there\u2019s some reason behind it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter, here in my blog you will not get that vibe. I am into motorcycles and pizza (obvs!). Also, good food, mostly made by me. This will include pics of my grill which does include meat. So, if you are squeamish about that, this is not the place for you. I let you know up front so you can prevent yourself from seeing images of food that you would rather not. This blog will be a place where I can finally be myself, a person who struggles with feeling like they don\u2019t fit in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the story of my life really, I\u2019ve never felt like I\u2019ve fit in anywhere. However, for my training I did find an awesome doula training agency, BADT<\/a>. They are a black-owned, queer-run doula training organization. They\u2019re f*cking awesome, I did feel like I fit in with their training courses. Because while this blog may come off as with a slightly more conservative feel (motorcycles!) I am in no way conservative whatsoever. And this informs my doula work, becasue we\u2019re often thought to be advocates. And I would totally agree with that. We advocate for the pregnant person; we advocate for those recently postpartum. We advocate for a change in reproductive health care in whatever country that we\u2019re in, making us in my opinion quite liberal and left-y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if the initial vibe made you uncomfortable, sorry. I hope you stick around for some motorcycle and pizza talk. There will probably be doula-talk along the way. I\u2019ve met some pretty rad people, people I would have never met except if I was in this line of work. Doulas are f*cking rad, they are some of the most down-to-earth people I\u2019ve ever met. They\u2019re also pretty hardcore. They help babies exit other\u2019s bodies. I won\u2019t get into it here, but that\u2019s nuts. Anyways, thanks for being here I hope you stick around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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