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Podcast: Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Episode: Reckon and Wonder - Witness, Matrimony, and the Making of Oral Culture with Stephen Jenkinson
Description: In this episode, guest host and podcast producer Jackson Kroopf interviews Kimberly and Stephen Jenkinson about their ongoing event series Reckoning: Birth and Death Among Us. They discuss the role of witness in their work as birth and death workers, the politics of feelings in a culture where pop psychology has become a religion, and dive deeply into their relationship to matrimony. In anticipation of their final event this summer, "Reckon and Wonder: Grief, Elderhood and Spirit Work," taking place this June 29th-July 2nd, 2023 at the Orphan Wisdom school in Ontario, they reflect on the difference between recording and...