A Minnesota-based collective of LGBTQ-identified birth and postpartum professionals that provides childbirth education, peer support groups, trainings, consulting, and provider referrals to queer families during family building, pregnancy, birth, and the early parenting period. The group’s mission is to increase access to culturally competent, affirming reproductive and postpartum care for 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their families.
Typically supports policies that expand LGBTQ+-inclusive reproductive and maternal health access, require cultural competency training for maternity care providers, protect against discrimination in health care and family-building, broaden insurance coverage for fertility and assisted reproductive services, and fund community-based perinatal supports such as doulas and peer groups.
Primarily supported by member and volunteer labor, small program fees and class tuition, donations, and occasional grants or community funding.
Local queer midwives and birthworkers (examples on the organization site include Bee Jackson, Janine Stiles, and Becca Andreassen) and partnerships with Minneapolis–St. Paul community venues and resources such as New City Center and the Rondo Library.
Grassroots nonprofit community organization / volunteer-run collective
