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Carried: How Surrogacy Grows Families

An illustration of a pregnant person with medium-tone skin in a doctor's office getting an ultrasound. They are accompanied by a masculine-presenting person with dark-tone skin and a feminine-presenting person with dark-tone skin who are behind them looking happily toward the ultrasound monitor as well. The doctor, who is a feminine-presenting person with dark-tone skin, has one hand holding the ultrasound sensor and another pointing at the image on the monitor. The upper left hand corner of the illustration features the episode title: "Carried."
Charnel Hunter

Meet the guests:

  • , founder of , talks about her experience as a three-time gestational surrogate. Family Inceptions is one of the only Black-owned surrogacy agencies in the country
  • Brian McGunagle, founder of Westport Pride, shares his experience going through the surrogacy process with his husband to have their now-toddler son
  • , professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, shares her ethnographic research on gestational surrogacy in the United States

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