Collective midwifing looks like repairing what colonial systems taught us to do alone.
Collective midwifing asks: How do we show up for one another materially and tangibly, as well as emotionally?
Collective midwifing looks like conditions where a mother can remain with her infant for the biological appropriate time, rather than needing to ‘bounce back as soon as possible’.
Collective midwifing looks like paid care replacing unpaid emotional labor, especially for racialized, queer, or female bodies who have historically carried birth work without support.
Collective midwifing looks like community stepping in where systems fall short.
Collective midwifing is reparations in practice, where in kin lovingly share the load, so care is not privatised to one/two exhausted bodies.
Collective midwifing looks like birth held by many hands.
Collective midwifing looks like care given freely, without strings attached, a care that values people over productivity.
Collective midwifing resists the demand to “bounce back,” privatise care, and survive birth in isolation.
Collective midwifing looks like postpartum care lasting months, not days, honoring recovery as a long-term process, not an event.
Collective midwifing is reparations in motion.
Collective midwifing is reparations practiced through relational responsibility, not charity
To birth a child is to birth a new cosmology, world, and future into being.
As we prepare to welcome this constellation, we’re remembering this collective way of being held. If you feel called to be part of our village, our fundraiser is open.
We’re inviting community to help resource our pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care.
Collective midwifing is how communities have always brought life into the world — through shared care, mutual responsibility, and material support.
This is how life has always been carried — together.
A Collective Midwifing Invitation
