(Re)Birth
society

About
(Re)Birth Society

Our Purpose:
to provide service, resources, education and cultural empowerment to members of the African-Indigenous community. Our goal is to support our community's efforts toward physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, and financial wellness and justice.
Our Offerings:
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educational resources*
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birth work & advocacy services*
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mutual aid
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wellness events and programs*
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gardening & sustainability initiatives
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youth outreaches
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land development
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and more
Our Values
Reproductive & Sexual Justice
restoring the human right to bodily autonomy, to full agency over reproductive decisions and care options including the decision to have or not to have children, to raise children and build families in safe, sustainable communities, to have the resources necessary to support oneself, one’s children, and one’s family, to have the education needed to make informed decisions about one’s sexuality, gender, and RS healthcare without coercion, discrimination, violence or repercussion, and to have access to quality culturally-concordant care, contraception, and sex education. For us, rsj centers those who are most marginalized- BIPOC, queer and trans, disabled, poor, etc.
Education & Cultural Awareness
ensuring that people have access to quality education, learning incentives, and intergenerational learning opportunities; ensuring that community members are equipped with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that will guide them toward making informed decisions throughout their lifetime and set them up for future success.
Full Life Holistic Wellness
restoring our fundamental right to wholistic wellness by centering rest, joy, play, creativity, movement, spirituality, and traditional healing modalities as acts of colonial resistance that uplift, empower and support our community members
Afro - Ecology
“a form of art, movement, practice and process of social and ecological transformation that involves the re-evaluation of our sacred relationships with land, water, air, seeds and food; (re)recognizes humans as co-creators that are an aspect of the planet’s life support systems; values the Afro-Indigenous experience of reality and ways of knowing; cherishes ancestral and communal forms of knowledge, experience and lifeways that began in Africa and continue throughout the Diaspora; and is rooted in the agrarian traditions, legacies and struggles of the Black experience in the Americas.” - Blain Snipstal of the Black Dirt Farm Collective <3
Intergenerational Community Stewardship
restoring our human and cultural right to safe and sustainable multigenerational communities that thrive; ensuring our ecosystem of community care is both sustainable and regenerative.
Mutual Aid: Mobilizing individuals toward creating solutions that address shared concerns and meet shared needs within communities
Those we call community members are often people who are within our reach. Our actions (and inactions) can have a lasting impact on those people. When we promote the phrase, "Each One Reach One," we acknowledge that it begins with knowing our impact and being intentional about how we show up in & for our communities. We are committed to reaching them with love, care, support and acceptance.
Our belief that Community Care is essential to the wellbeing of African Indigenous people supports our aim to make resources, advocacy, education and healing accessible to those who need it. We offer Community Care with the Each One, Reach One approach. Those who we partner with, train, support, educate, and build with are encouraged & equipped to go out and do the same in their own ways, to reach another who will reach another.