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Disability Justice Grounded Birthwork – Starting Friday March 20th, 2026, 12 – 2:30pm CST via Zoom
is a:
12 week series (10 weeks of content; 2 weeks of community building) on the intersections of Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We will immerse ourselves in the origins of eugenics and how it has shaped the medical industrial complex and policing we see today. Then we will ground in how the MIC and policing have shaped and sustain the current ableist and hostile state of reproductive care and anti-bodily autonomy. We will take considerable time centering the most and multi marginalized folks navigating these systems and communities. We will round this experience out with how to do this work mindfully, equitably and sustainably, while centering care.
This is for: All birthworkers, doulas, birthkeepers and folks who do reproductive care and support. Abortion, Birth, Fertility, Grief & Loss, Postpartum and more. While this series is centered on the full spectrum of birth and reproductive care workers, it is also open to parents and caregivers and I encourage you to sign up!
We have 4 AMAZING queer and trans Black covid cautious Birth and Reproductive care workers as community facilitators
We got ASL, CART (live transcription) and Captions
We have 30, Thirty!?, yes THIRTY full scholarships for:
– Black and Indigenous Disabled Birthworkers and/or Parents
– Disabled, DEAF/Hard of Hearing, and/or Blind/Low Vision folks/careworkers
– Just email me: rise@riotousroots.com
What’s the line up you ask?
Week 1: Grounding: Disability Justice, Reproductive Justice, Disability, Ableism and Access!
Week 2: Interrupting Ableism and AntiBlackness: Internally and Intuitionally
Week 3: Impacts of Environmental and Global Injustice on Reproductive Health
Week 4: Protecting Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Pregnant People: Lateral Advocacy, Harm Reduction and Carceral Systems
Week 5: Centering Survivorhood
Week 6: Break/Integration Week
Week 7: Reclaiming Grief
Week 8: Respecting Black, Indigenous and Ancestral Cultural Practices
Week 9: Postpartum is Forever and PMADS Suck!
Week 10 : Centering Parents and Caregivers A-Z: Community is Liberation
Week 11: Sustaining in Community: Self Solidarity, Accountability, Humility and Interpersonal Connection
Week 12: Closing/Community
I’m so excited to be in this 3rd year! This is still the only Birthwork course that is completely centered in Disability Justice. Not a module or brief mention. I truly believe Disability Justice is the grounded for all other justice movements!
Will you consider joining? Sharing especially with those you think would be interested? Hyping me up?
Again, the link is here below:
https://riotous-roots-site-e183.thinkific.com/courses/copy-of-disability-justice-grounded-birthwork-spring-2026
Hope to hear from you <3
~ Rise
Accessibility: ASL Interpretation, CART (live transcription), and Captioning