Community Building

Creating spaces where we can build trust, resources, and communities that provide true, non-stigmatizing supports for perinatal people and parents.

True birth and reproductive justice work must be rooted in community. 

There can be nothing about us, without us.* As we push for New York State to enact the Maternal Health, Dignity and Consent Act, we commit to simultaneously creating spaces where we can build trust, resources, and communities that provide true, non-stigmatizing support for perinatal people and parents. 

Black person who uses a wheelchair saying “nothing about us without us.” Web of interconnected needs, issues, and efforts including gender justice, prison abolition, reproductive justice, and more. Web extends to efforts to pass Informed Consent.

*We recognize and honor the origins and history of the powerful demand, “Nothing about us, without us,” derives from our allies in the struggle for disability justice, who have made clear that NO polices should be created without the full participation of those it impacts. Learn more here.

We learn together.

  • Doula Teach-In

    In Honor of Black Maternal Health Week 2024, we and our coalition partners Ancient Song Doula Services, Bronx (Re)Birth & Progress Collective, and Halimah Washington hosted a doula community teach in about how and why family policing is a reproductive injustice and how Doulas can help resist family policing surveillance, control, and punishment of birthing people and new parents.

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We gather together.

  • Community-Dinner (2024)

    Join us for food, fellowship, and learning about the family policing system, the need for informed consent and how it fits within the larger fight for birth and reproductive justice.

    More information on date, time and location coming soon.

  • Letter Writing Event (2021)

    In 2021, the Informed Consent Coalition, led by a planning committee—steered by directly impacted mamas—came together to write letters to mamas in drug treatment programs for Mama's Day in order to show our love and solidarity, and to provide information about larger coalition work to stop the womb-to-foster-system pipeline.

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Instagram Live Series: Informed Consent & Reproductive Justice

The Informed Consent Coalition hosted a series of conversations with our movement partners at the National Institute for Reproductive Health, Pregnancy Justice, Ancient Song, Elephant Circle, Black Families Love & Unite, and Movement for Family Power. These events were crafted to welcome folks into our community and offer an accessible platform to learn about our legislation, vision, and values.

  • Beyond the Bars Conference 2024

  • Letter Writing Event 2022

  • Birth and Reproductive Justice Vision Board 2021

  • NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus Weekend 2024 - Stopping Rockefeller 2.0

  • Letter Writing Event 2022

  • Informed Consent NY Coalition Meeting 2021