Career and community circles across tech, healthcare, finance, the arts, faith, motherhood, and more.
When women on the continent and in the diaspora actually talk to each other.
A working circle to bridge a real gap. Continental African women and African-diaspora women too often talk past each other. We carry parallel histories that intersect in specific …
Training, recovery, and showing up to our bodies.
For Black and African-diaspora women serious about movement. Strength training, running, swimming, dance, martial arts, yoga, climbing, cycling, rehabilitation work after injury and surgery, and the long discipline …
For Black mothers raising children of other races, and for adoptees becoming mothers.
A small, careful circle. Two overlapping conversations sit inside this network. First: Black mothers raising children of other races — children adopted from Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, …
The remittances, the property, the long financial relationship.
A peer-support circle for diaspora women supporting parents, siblings, and extended family on the African continent. The remittances, the property, the school fees, the medical emergencies. The long …
Sisters across the African and African-American Muslim communities.
A network for Muslim women of African and African-diaspora descent — Sunni, Shia, Sufi, and the many communities our practice has built across the continent and the Americas. …
Lesbian, bi, trans, and queer mothers building family on our own terms.
A network for queer Black and African-diaspora mothers — lesbian, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, and queer in every other configuration we have built. Partnered, single, co-parenting across households, raising …
The Loretta Ross framework, applied to our lives.
A learning and action circle grounded in the reproductive justice framework that twelve Black women, including Loretta Ross, named into existence in 1994. The three pillars: the right …
Honest conversation across the surrogacy relationship.
A network for surrogates and intended mothers in the Black and African-diaspora community. The conversation in this room is unusual because it sits on both sides of a …
Engineers, scientists, and researchers working through the technical climb.
For Black and African-diaspora women across software engineering, hardware engineering, applied mathematics, life sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary scientific work. The conversation here is technical first. We do …
Yoruba, Akan, Kemetic, and ancestor traditions.
A circle for women returning to or staying with West African and other ancestral spiritual traditions. Ifa, Orisha worship in Yoruba and Lukumi forms, Akan religion, Kemetic practice, …
When the diagnostic system fails us by design.
Black women wait longer for diagnosis. The research is consistent across lupus, sarcoidosis, endometriosis, fibroids, thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and a long …
Born here. Of there. Carrying both.
A circle for first-generation African and Caribbean women in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Born here. Of there. Carrying both. The phrase is short …