Birth Justice Institute

✨🌟 The Birth Giving Gala ✨🌟
An unforgettable evening celebrating Birth Justice and The Birth Justice Institute , Community, and Collective Power. Ticket sales end Wednesday October 22 2025 end of day.
📅 Friday, October 24, 2025
🕖 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
📍 47 Edison Place, Newark, NJ
🎤 Keynote Address by Dr. Lynn Roberts
🍴 Delicious food & fine dining
🎶 music + vibes
🏆 Awards honoring birth Justice Fellows and Facilitators
This is the night to celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and beauty of our movement. 💜
🎟️ Tickets: $50 Early Bird | $75 General
Tickets are still available!
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1568167253469?aff=oddtdtcreator
🔗 RSVP & Tickets in bio
Dress to impress ✨ Newark, let’s make history together!

Join us for a powerful conversation on breastfeeding, liberation, and justice! 🍼✨
The Birth Justice Institute, in partnership with the Perinatal Health Equity Initiative, invites you to our upcoming webinar:

📅 Date: Thursday, August 21st
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Melanie Hutton, CLC, CBS – Birth Justice Specialist
💡 Topic: Lactation Liberation: Breastfeeding & Birth Justice

Discover how lactation support intersects with reproductive justice and community health, and learn strategies to empower birthing people in their breastfeeding journeys.

📍 Free & open to all – Register now and be part of the movement for equitable, culturally-rooted care!

🌿✨ COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS – PART 1 ✨🌿
Reconnecting Our Wombs: The Role of Midwives

🔥 Ready for real talk? Healing starts with truth. 🔥

We’re calling our community together to name the wounds, hold space for the hard truths, and imagine something better. This is not your typical meeting. It’s a space to be heard. To listen. To heal.

This season, we’re diving deep into the importance of the midwifery model of care—honoring community wisdom, holistic support, and reproductive justice.

✨ Come if you're tired of broken systems.
✨ Come if you want collective care, not control.
✨ Come if you're ready to dream up new ways of being.

🗓️ Date: July 17th
🕕 Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Zoom (details via registration)

✅ Link in bio to register.

Bring your story. Bring your truth. Bring your heart. Let’s build something real together.

# birthjusticeinstitute

🌿✨ COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS – PART 1 ✨🌿
Listening to the Wounds of the System

🔥 Ready for real talk? Healing starts with truth. 🔥

We’re calling our community together to name the wounds, hold space for the hard truths, and imagine something better. This is not your typical meeting. It’s a space to be heard. To listen. To heal.

This season, we’re diving deep into the importance of the midwifery model of care—honoring community wisdom, holistic support, and reproductive justice.

✨ Come if you're tired of broken systems.
✨ Come if you want collective care, not control.
✨ Come if you're ready to dream up new ways of being.

🗓️ Date: July 17th
🕕 Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Zoom (details via registration)

✅ Link in bio to register.

Bring your story. Bring your truth. Bring your heart. Let’s build something real together.

# birthjusticeinstitute

🌿 Upcoming Webinar Alert! 🌿
Join us this Thursday, June 19th at 6:00 PM for an enriching session of our Birth Justice Institute Webinar Series:

✨ Nourishing the Womb: Food as Medicine in Reproductive Health
with the incredible Chef Bee 🍲🧘🏽‍♀️

Discover how ancestral food traditions and holistic nutrition can support reproductive wellness, balance hormones, and heal the womb. Chef Bee will guide us through practical ways to center food as a vital tool for healing and empowerment in our reproductive journeys.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, June 19
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM EST
📍 Online – Register via the link in bio!

Don't miss this sacred space to learn, reflect, and reconnect with the wisdom of nourishment. 🧡

📣 Upcoming Workshop Alert!

🍓 Eating For Two: Nutrition and Wellness for Pregnancy and Postpartum
🗓 Thursday, June 12, 2025
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 132 S Harrison St, East Orange, NJ 07018

Join us for a nourishing and empowering conversation on how to care for your body and spirit through food during pregnancy and the postpartum journey. 🌿✨

Led by wellness experts and birthworkers, this workshop will explore:
🍲 Holistic nutrition for birthing bodies
🍼 Postpartum healing foods
💪🏾 Culturally grounded practices for wellness
💬 Live Q&A + community sharing

Whether you’re expecting, postpartum, or supporting someone who is—this space is for you. 💛

✅ RSVP now and bring a friend! Let’s build wellness in community.

Sacred Support: A Male Doula’s Perspective 🧡
Join us for a powerful convo with Timothy Gant —male doula, advocate, and community healer—as we explore the sacred role of partner support in birthwork.

Let’s uplift the often-overlooked presence of men in the birth space and reimagine what intentional, accountable care can look like for all supporters.

✨ Open to all genders
🗓 Wed, June 11 @ 7PM EST
📍On Zoom
🎬 Bonus: We’ll close the session with a special viewing of Timothy’s short film!
🔗 Register here: eventbrite.com/e/1389701898789?aff=oddtdtcreator

Come through to learn, connect, and shift the narrative.

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🌕 Sacred Shifts: Community Healing Circle + Resource Share 🌿
Join us for Sacred Shifts, a grounding space for reflection, connection, and healing in community. This event centers the emotional journeys of birthing people, honoring the often-unseen shifts of the postpartum experience.
We’ll gather in a community healing circle to share stories, hold space, and reclaim care. Together, we’ll explore how grief, joy, exhaustion, and transformation live side by side—and how collective support can carry us through.
🛍️ Participants will receive a Mental Health Resource Kit, including:
Information on local counseling and support groups
Mindfulness and wellness tools
Affirmations and culturally grounded resources for healing
This event is free and open to all, especially BIPOC birthing people, parents, and those navigating postpartum shifts. Come as you are. Your story, your breath, your healing are sacred.

✨ The Fourth Trimester Within ✨
Navigating Postpartum Mental Health
The birth doesn't end when the baby arrives—it's just the beginning of another transformation.
Join us for The Fourth Trimester Within, a healing-centered workshop exploring the emotional and mental health journeys of birthing people after birth. This event is a space to speak truth, build community, and access tools for coping and resilience.
Whether you're newly postpartum, parenting young children, supporting a loved one, or working in birth and reproductive health, this space is for you.

🌼 In this workshop, we’ll:
Unpack the realities of postpartum depression, anxiety, and mood disorders
Explore trauma-informed coping strategies and self-healing practices
Share in community stories, reflection, and collective care
Connect to local mental health and support resources
🧡 Free & open to the community. Light refreshments and resources provided.
Your postpartum experience matters. Your mental health matters. You are not alone. 🌿