Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free [Hardcover]

Birthing Liberationpresents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.

Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues—such as access to health care, house transportation, and nutrition—and personal trauma work that, if healed, have the power to lead us to collective liberation in all facets of life.

Collective liberation rests on the idea that in order for us all to have equity in this world—from the safety of childbirth, to the ability to bring a baby home to a safe community, to having access to resources, safety, and opportunities over the long term—we must all become liberated individuals.

Birthing Liberationcreates a path to social and systemic change, starting within the birthing world and expanding far beyond.

“The wisdom and love on these pagesteach folks how to embrace the necessary discomfort to understand that medical racism hurts us all, and why collective liberation is the only North Star worth aspiring to.” —Janna Meyrowitz Turner, president of Synastry Capital and cofounder of VCs for Repro

“The words that Wade so thoughtfully and diligently crafted in this book are for anyone and everyone who has ever been born. We know that when people are able to bring life into the world—honored in the sacred and the magic—their lineages experience tectonic shifts in freedom. What one gathers from reading these words isa reminder of our personal responsibility to the collective, that our work cannot start in the community until we begin the work on ourselves and remember all that has been taken or lost at the hands of capitalism. May all who read this beautiful offering remember.” —Davinah Simmons, MS, full-spectrum doula, childbirth and lactation educator, and founder of Rooted Birth Doula Servil