Creating pleasure equality and equity for mothers and birthing people begins with the right to a safe, healthy, and supported birth.
I am deeply passionate about birth equity for black birthing people and people of color and culture.
Black Death has become the norm in our society. We’re constantly talking about preventing it, and an important part of this discussion is what it looks like to protect and preserve black lives inside our healthcare systems.
In the U.S., Black women are five times more likely to die during birth & postpartum than white women. Their symptoms, concerns, and complaints go ignored, leading to preventable, irreparable harm & in most cases, death.
It is time we begin focusing on creating a space of safety, love, and support, for black mothers, black birthing people, and birthing people of color and culture.
Pleasurehood for mothers & parents begins at the moment of conception. It is everyone’s right to experience a powerful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
I have created this Anti-Racism and Birthwork Workshop for white-bodied allies who are interested in acquiring the tools needed to support black birthing people and people of culture.
Anti-racism work is ancestral work; it's bodywork. We are healing ancestral lines through our body, mind, and soul. When we heal racism on a molecular level, we heal not only our ancestry but also our legacy.
You can’t think your way into allyship, you must feel it in your body. It’s a body experience. You must use your emotional brain and body to sense when something isn’t right, and then have the tools and skill set to put your allyship into action.
Anti-Racism and Allyship Birthwork Workshop Curriculum
Part One - Anti-Racism + Birthwork
The Black maternal health crises, and what it means to be a black person birthing in the United States
How to navigate your own trauma around race
How to pinpoint racial blind spots, and how to examine them when they come up
How to explore your unconscious bias from a somatic place
How to put anti-racism & unconscious bias into practice as a birth keeper
How to protect birthing people of color
Part Two - Allyship + Birthwork
Allyship as a practice of emphasizing social justice, inclusion, and human rights. Particularly when it comes to birth work
How to create a space of safety, love, support, and community for black mothers, black birthing people, and birthing people of color
How to navigate Anti-Racism work as a birth worker
How to be an ally, advocate, and co-conspirator when supporting black women, women of color & culture, and black birthing people and birthing people of culture
How to center the voices, experiences, and stories of birthing people of color. This includes uplifting doulas and midwives of color
How to integrate allyship and anti-racism into your business
10% of workshop proceeds will be donated to the Black Mamas Matter Alliance.
If we desire better birth outcomes for everyone, we must educate ourselves on how to provide support to those who are most vulnerable in our birthing communities.
If you are a white bodied birth worker holding space for a birthing person of color, then you must understand how your own unchecked narrative around race could be causing unnecessary and unintentional harm to your client and their unborn baby.
