Welcome to Embodied Birth 2025
Embody Your Trans/Queer Birth Authentically
The next live, community based program for queer & trans people navigating birth (as birthers AND as birth supporters) starts soon! Register today to save your spot in an upcoming cohort.
fall cohort begins november 2025
Previous birth class participants Bo Rittapa (he/him, left) & Marissa Medina (she/her, right)
Photo by Brooke Patmor
Welcome!
Hi, I’m Ash
After birthing trans, attending over 150 births, and giving many hours of prenatal counsel, I created this online trans queer birth class & community from a decolonizing framework based on the things I found myself continuously wishing birthers knew before birth. This class is rooted in radically safer birth guidance for folks birthing in and out of hospitals that I couldn’t find elsewhere – so I created it specifically for trans and queer folks.
Beyond life-saving knowledge, we also need queer-only spaces to form community around the unique experience queer and trans folks face navigating pregnancy, labor, and parenting.
This program is a culmination of many years of teaching and experience – bringing it all together into an online format that fosters a radically queer centered, judgment-free learning environment prioritizing radical physical and emotional well being, rather than profit, as colonial medical birthing paradigms do.
Starting November 2025
Register for the next cohort for Trans / Queer Birth Class, running from Nov 25 – Dec 16 2025, or for the upcoming Spring cohort in 2026. As a participant you gain access to our private online community, resource library, and live and recorded sessions. Registration is open and visit the registration page to learn date/time details.
Mini Workshop Oct 28
Western birth culture acts like birth is inherently feminine due to the colonial propaganda that reproductive organs determine gender, but birth is actually just simple and incredible human physiology. Separating birth from gender before the birth will help trans folks stay in their body, trust themselves to do the literally ancient work of labor and delivery, and deflect the anxious and feminized birth narratives so embedded in the ideologies of our birth teams (in and out of hospital), our families, and the wider culture. Topics include:
- Nuances of dysphoria and self-trust for trans birther and the trans superpower of dissociation
- Postpartum: When to restart HRT, lactation in postpartum trans folks, drying up, binding, and considering when lactation induction makes sense
- Advocacy tips to confront clinically dangerous discrimination in birth spaces for BIPOC and/or trans folks
Pay what you can/want: $0-$65 – Flyer photo by @alayynay