The Pregnant Peoples

By: Asher Owen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Pregnant Peoples is a memoir-manifesto that shatters the narrow script of pregnancy. For generations, carrying a child has been described only as a woman’s story — written into forms, whispered in waiting rooms, shouted in politics. But bodies tell truths that words resist.

In this powerful and intimate account, a transgender man shares the journey of carrying his child: the awe and dysphoria of a changing body, the fight to claim words like “father” in a system that insists on “mother,” the strain and resilience of love under pressure, the dangers of being visibly pregnant in a hostile world, and the transformation that comes with birth itself. Blending personal narrative with cultural critique, The Pregnant Peoples refuses erasure. It is both testimony and declaration — that pregnancy does not belong to one gender, one body, or one word.

This is not a story of impossibility. It is a story of existence, of becoming, of fathers who birth and parents who create. It is a reminder that identity cannot be undone by creation — it is expanded by it.