"The truth is, no one of us can be free
until everybody is free."
Maya Angelou
until everybody is free."
Maya Angelou
Mission
RLBC is committed to the liberation of all peoples from cycles which result in reproductive injustice. We support BIQTPOC in every stage of reproductive life, centering their power and celebrating their families. We are a coalitionary collective of birthworkers and full-spectrum support advocates, based in Oakland on Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands, that reflect the communities we serve. We empower one another and our communities in our respective ancestral traditions as we uplift our community’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
Values
Decolonization
We are indebted to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, and we are committed to the ongoing struggle of returning land sovereignty to Huichin Ohlone people. We seek to strengthen our solidarity by returning to ancestral birth and medicine practices, and remaining intentional about our impact on the cultural economy of the Bay Area.
We seek to undo the longstanding effects of how centuries of colonization, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other oppressions intersect with medical practices around birth and transition. We are dedicated to building autonomous strength, resilience and thriving outside of traditional healthcare systems for Oakland, especially East/Deep East Oakland, as resource dry and highly targeted neighborhoods.
Reproductive Justice
We value the wisdom and tools of those who came before us, and believe this knowledge belongs in our current healing and advocacy work. We trust in the body’s knowledge, power, and capacity. We value and all stages of transition, birth, and reproductive life and parenthood as part of the reproductive justice movement. This means honoring the experience of incarceration, gender transition, infant morbidity, parent mortality, as all a part of the life-long cycle of care for communities most impacted by ongoing colonization, anti-Blackness and repression.
Empowering Ourselves and Each Other
We believe all people deserve to make their own informed reproductive health decisions for their bodies and their babies, and receive support in those decisions. We recognize that the dehumanization of Black and Indigenous peoples is at the core of our struggle, and we aim to center the experience and leadership of Black and Indigenous Femmes in our collective and our work. We strive to provide support in a way that sustains ourselves and each other as well as the community we serve.
RLBC is committed to the liberation of all peoples from cycles which result in reproductive injustice. We support BIQTPOC in every stage of reproductive life, centering their power and celebrating their families. We are a coalitionary collective of birthworkers and full-spectrum support advocates, based in Oakland on Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands, that reflect the communities we serve. We empower one another and our communities in our respective ancestral traditions as we uplift our community’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
Values
Decolonization
We are indebted to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, and we are committed to the ongoing struggle of returning land sovereignty to Huichin Ohlone people. We seek to strengthen our solidarity by returning to ancestral birth and medicine practices, and remaining intentional about our impact on the cultural economy of the Bay Area.
We seek to undo the longstanding effects of how centuries of colonization, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other oppressions intersect with medical practices around birth and transition. We are dedicated to building autonomous strength, resilience and thriving outside of traditional healthcare systems for Oakland, especially East/Deep East Oakland, as resource dry and highly targeted neighborhoods.
Reproductive Justice
We value the wisdom and tools of those who came before us, and believe this knowledge belongs in our current healing and advocacy work. We trust in the body’s knowledge, power, and capacity. We value and all stages of transition, birth, and reproductive life and parenthood as part of the reproductive justice movement. This means honoring the experience of incarceration, gender transition, infant morbidity, parent mortality, as all a part of the life-long cycle of care for communities most impacted by ongoing colonization, anti-Blackness and repression.
Empowering Ourselves and Each Other
We believe all people deserve to make their own informed reproductive health decisions for their bodies and their babies, and receive support in those decisions. We recognize that the dehumanization of Black and Indigenous peoples is at the core of our struggle, and we aim to center the experience and leadership of Black and Indigenous Femmes in our collective and our work. We strive to provide support in a way that sustains ourselves and each other as well as the community we serve.
We believe that everyone deserves a doula.
#EveryoneDeservesaDoula #EDD
Calculate and pay the Shuumi Land Tax (SF Bay Area)
rootsoflaborbc@gmail.com
(805) 910-RLBC (7522)
#EveryoneDeservesaDoula #EDD
Calculate and pay the Shuumi Land Tax (SF Bay Area)
rootsoflaborbc@gmail.com
(805) 910-RLBC (7522)