Jennifer Block is an award winning journalist, an advocate for women’s health care, and the author of books including “Pushed: the Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care” and “Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution.” She writes frequently about health, gender, and conflict of interest in medicine. What She Shares:     Insight into the recent Madison Breech Birth Conference     Working for 5 years to get publishers to take her first book seriously     Why viewing birth through a human rights lens is so important     How feminism’s relationship with the medical establishment has changed  What You’ll Hear:     How the lack of professional birth education creates ‘birth refugees’     How practitioners organized the Madison Breech Birth Conference to take education back into their own hands     The importance of human rights in birth     Taking an active role in your birth and changing the trauma response     The correspondence of the rise in maternal mortality and the rise in c-sections     The discrepancy of C-section rates between different communities     Translating birth research into the birth room practices     Understanding the actual birth potential of a breech baby     Holding your power during birth     Examining the health effects of hormonal birth control     Separating politics from health care choices     Knowing that choosing to end your cycle is not a physiologically ‘neutral’ choice     The benefits of monthly hormone cycling     Taking a long-term view of fertility     Undoing the “father-doctor-god” complex and believing in your own knowledge and power     The intersection of race and health care