Queer and Transgender Midwives Alliance

06/26/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Keisha Goode (she/her) is a Black Q***r midwifery advocate and sociologist.

She says, "My service is to Black midwifery!

"Midwifery care provision is most critical to liberatory futures. I believe, with every fiber in my being, that a healthy, thriving, midwifery care workforce is critical to maximizing the power and possibilities of midwifery care provision for all people. Midwifery care is the way. I am a Black midwifery enthusiast, fiercely committed to all Black midwives and the advancement of Black midwifery."

⭐️ You can find Keisha at

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The first Pride was a riot.
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06/24/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Ray Weber (they/ them/ elle) is a Q***r Nonbinary Le***an midwife proudly serving a birthing families in Long Beach and the greater LA area, providing high quality trauma-informed, anti-racist care for all.

Ray is excited about our Pride campaign because, "I know there are families out there who need us as q***r providers, it’s life saving. It’s hard for them to find us, even to get our name out there, when we’re being silenced and censored by social media algorithms and an administration that doesn’t want us to exist. We’re here and we’re q***r and we’re thriving despite those who wanna see us fail!"

Ray describes their work as transformative and based in liberation.

"I see my role in liberation as a supportive one, I use my platform to elevate the voices of black and brown midwives. I continue to advocate for birth justice for all, but especially those most vulnerable to experiencing obstetric violence. Being a midwife is the part I play in creating social change. Providing care in the way we do can help heal families, and they take that healing into their larger communities. I love to see clients empowered by their midwifery care experiences & taking that with them into other healthcare settings. They know their rights and how they deserve to be treated."

⭐️ You can find Ray at longbeachmidwife (dot) com.

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The first Pride was a riot.
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06/23/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Chasity Efunranti Osunjuade Millen (she/her) is a Black, Q***r midwife proudly serving a diverse range of families with a deep focus on those who have historically faced barriers to respectful, culturally competent care.

Chasity works in the metro Atlanta, GA area / Mvskoke land. She also serves families in West Michigan, with both in-person and virtual offerings.

Her work is deeply rooted in birth justice and liberation.

"As a q***r Black woman and a Certified Community Traditional Midwife, this campaign is deeply personal and urgently necessary. We are living in a time when bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and the safety of Black, Brown, and LGBTQIA+ communities are under relentless attack. Across the country, we’re seeing increasing restrictions on access to abortion, midwifery care, and gender-affirming health — all while maternal mortality rates for Black birthing people remain alarmingly high.

"This is not just about policy. It’s about people — our families, our futures, our right to bring life into this world with dignity, choice, and support...

"At this critical moment, I refuse to be silent or sidelined. We are the medicine. We are the resistance. And we are building the future our ancestors dreamed of — one birth, one story, one sacred offering at a time."

⭐️ You can find Chasity at loveandlightheal (dot) com.

***rMidwife ***rTransMidwives

The first Pride was a riot.
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Tell us why your work is revolutionary
by scanning the QR code in the second pic!

06/22/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Iya Mystique (they/she) is a Q***r, Genderq***r Doula and Full-Spectrum Educator serving the QTBIPOC community in Jacksonville, FL.

A Black, Indigenous, Latine birth justice advocate, Iya is also a UX/UI Designer.

"I'm here for the mission to continue to raise awareness in the healthcare world, and the world in general, about our existence, need for protection, and needs for safety health, and wellness.

"As an educator, I continue to teach aspiring doulas and midwives the full-spectrum approach to birth work, where my lessons are tied to internsectional justice, repro and birth liberation, and healing justice in their practices. I'm also a tech baddie who specializes in UX/UI design and coding, to provide an inclusive perspective in healthcare and tech when it comes to serving communities in need."

⭐️ You can find Iya at
https bio (dot) site/MystiquesDesigns and

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06/20/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Lindsey Oakes (they/them.) is a Q***r, Nonbinary midwife serving the out-of-hospital midwifery community in San Diego, CA.

"I serve Q***r people, I serve Transgender people, I serve people seeking information and support for chronic pain, I serve people wanting to experience touch and receive bodywork in a safe container with patient hands."

Lindsey believes that we are all deserving of care and community reflective of ourselves. Liberation informs their work.

"I am not an apolitical person, or midwife, and neither is my work. Midwives and midwifery care is an essential part of reproductive justice and freedom. The people I serve and work I'm called to demands my desire for understanding, experience, and continued education be intersectional, and I will continue that work for the rest of my life."

⭐️ You can find Lindsey at Lindsey Oakes (dot) com and on social media .

***rTransMidwives

The first Pride was a riot.
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06/17/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Latasha Brown (she/her) is a Black, le***an nurse-midwife proudly serving a diverse community of birthing people and families, with a focus on centering care for Black, Brown, q***r, trans, and other historically marginalized populations.

She works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin / unceded Ho-chunk, Peoria, Kickapoo, Myaamia, and Potawatomi lands. Her work is deeply rooted in birth justice and liberation.

"My role in birthwork is rooted in the belief that reproductive care is a human right and that true liberation includes the ability to birth, parent, and access healthcare with dignity and autonomy. My work challenges these systems by creating safer, affirming spaces where clients are seen, heard, and supported as whole people. Intersectional justice in birthwork means dismantling oppression while building pathways to healing, empowerment, and generational wellness."

Latasha believes visibility matters in this critical time:

"At a time when LGBTQ+ rights, bodily autonomy, and reproductive freedom are under attack, it’s essential to show that we exist, we are thriving, and we are providing life-affirming care. As a le***an midwife, I know firsthand how powerful it is for clients to see themselves reflected in their care team. Pride visibility isn’t just about celebration—it’s about resistance, representation, and reclaiming space in healthcare."

⭐️ You can find Latasha at sacredwatersmidwifery (dot) com and on social media .

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The first Pride was a riot.
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06/15/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Kim Barstow (they/them) is an Q***r, Genderq***r midwife serving clients in Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Kim describes their work in this critical time:

"More than ever I want q***r and trans individuals and families to have access to care that is safe, respectful, informed, enthusiastic, joyful, skilled, and where all of their identities can be held and celebrated in all their complexities.

"My care is deeply rooted in the perspective that each person and family is the expert in their lives and needs and my role is to offer the information, training, and skills I have that supports those needs."

⭐️ You can find Kim at wildflower-midwifery (dot) com.

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The first Pride was a riot.
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Tell us why your work is revolutionary
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06/13/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Delmar Bauta (they/them) is an Q***r, Genderq***r, midwife serving clients who seek skills and knowledge to fully exercise their autonomy.

A multiracial Latine person, Delmar describes their work as grounded in liberation and self-sovereignty. "My work pulls people away from the margins, into the center of their own care. My role is to negotiate the power dynamics of the room in order to put choices back into my client's hands."

Delmar provides virtual midwifery care and DIY care consults around fertility, abortion, whole-person prenatal care, and lactation.

"As midwives we are sentinels of the most basic resistance; we are the keepers of the skills and knowledge needed to retain ownership of our individual bodies."

⭐️ You can find Delmar at

***rMidwife ***rTransMidwives

The first Pride was a riot.
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06/11/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 By Us, For Us: Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Indra Lusero (they/them) is an Q***r, Genderq***r, Indigenous, Latine attorney serving midwives and people in the perinatal period, specializing in the US context.

Based out of Ute territory / Colorado, Indra is known in our community as a midwife to the midwives. They describe their work as decolonizing legal information and building liberatory legal architecture.

Indra believes that "by our very existence we demonstrate that another world is not just possible, but here."

⭐️ You can find Indra .

***rTransMidwives

The first Pride was a riot.
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Tell us why your work is revolutionary
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06/11/2025