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0.06% of venture dollars go to black female ceo’s. as of november 2017, there were just 34 black female founders who had raised more than $1 million. i’m number 35. if i had known these exact statistics when my friend and mentor @katkale of @ritual encouraged me to raise venture, i probably wouldn’t have jumped in. not because i thought i’d fail but as a trauma survivor, deeper exposure to a system that didn’t want black women was something i didn’t need. but instead i pressed on with the support of my co-founder and impact chief @quinnlundbreg and our amazing @loomhq team. we made it happen. @loomhq is about expansion, empathy and wellbeing. we’re building a world where women can understand and thrive in their bodies at every stage of their lives. health education is an underutilized healthcare intervention. when it’s offered with compassion and intelligence it can change a woman’s entire life for the better. i’m deeply grateful to our investors who believed in our value proposition and jumped in before covid19 and the murders of breonna, nina and george changed our world forever. @jillieruth and @slowventures thank you leading our round and to @precursorvc @moxxieventures and #gsvventures for following on. no-one has clarity on what the next few years will look like but i’m certain that self-knowledge, self-compassion, collective empathy and our health will be at the forefront. i’m thrilled that @loomhq will be a part of this new paradigm. our new site and look is live today. it’s a whole vibe, thanks to the magic from the women at @roandcostudio and @wallforapricots ✨ to the black women reading this, if you have a dream keep pushing. give it time, create community around it, be gentle on yourself and don’t give up. there is room at the table for you and i’m working to make more. trust. 💪🏾 lastly thank you to @pavsmo for writing this article. it felt special to tell my story to a brown girl whose parents, like mine came to this country for a better life. 🙏🏾

0.06% of venture dollars go to black female ceo’s. as of november 2017, there were just 34 black female founders who had raised more than $1 million. i’m number 35. if i had known these exact statistics when my friend and mentor @katkale of @ritual encouraged me to raise venture, i probably wouldn’t have jumped in. not because i thought i’d fail but as a trauma survivor, deeper exposure to a system that didn’t want black women was something i didn’t need. but instead i pressed on with the support of my co-founder and impact chief @quinnlundbreg and our amazing @loomhq team. we made it happen. @loomhq is about expansion, empathy and wellbeing. we’re building a world where women can understand and thrive in their bodies at every stage of their lives. health education is an underutilized healthcare intervention. when it’s offered with compassion and intelligence it can change a woman’s entire life for the better. i’m deeply grateful to our investors who believed in our value proposition and jumped in before covid19 and the murders of breonna, nina and george changed our world forever. @jillieruth and @slowventures thank you leading our round and to @precursorvc @moxxieventures and #gsvventures for following on. no-one has clarity on what the next few years will look like but i’m certain that self-knowledge, self-compassion, collective empathy and our health will be at the forefront. i’m thrilled that @loomhq will be a part of this new paradigm. our new site and look is live today. it’s a whole vibe, thanks to the magic from the women at @roandcostudio and @wallforapricots ✨ to the black women reading this, if you have a dream keep pushing. give it time, create community around it, be gentle on yourself and don’t give up. there is room at the table for you and i’m working to make more. trust. 💪🏾 lastly thank you to @pavsmo for writing this article. it felt special to tell my story to a brown girl whose parents, like mine came to this country for a better life. 🙏🏾

birthday note to self: you deserve to feel safe in your body. your body deserves rest. self-compassion and self-inquiry are sustainable. resentment is not. detach with love. speak freely about your beliefs from a place of collective strength. you are held and protected by the women who came before you. your body is an aging monument to your trauma and your survival but also to your joy and transformation. stay gentle. keep going. make room. a year can change everything. 34 • ♎️♐️♋️ 📷: @themagdalenaexperience

it’s been three weeks since my abdominal myomectomy. my team at @uclahealth took amazing care of me and i don’t take that for granted, especially as a black woman. they removed 23 fibroids of every shape and size. ⚠️content warning⚠️ if you’re not squeamish—swipe through for a closer look. all together my fibroids weighed around 500 grams—approximately the weight of a six-month old fetus. recovery has been hard. instead of pushing through the pain, i’ve had to slow down and listen to my body literally demand that i do less. it’s been uncomfortable to surrender and face how attached i am to being productive. i’ve had to rediscover my value outside of the framework of achievement. this forced stillness will be one of my greatest teachers. it’s a portal for deep bodily and psychic change—a chance to see everything differently. more on the surgery and recovery process as i continue to heal but today i’m joyful, fibroid-free and finally back at home in my body. #itsallinmygut

it’s been three weeks since my abdominal myomectomy. my team at @uclahealth took amazing care of me and i don’t take that for granted, especially as a black woman. they removed 23 fibroids of every shape and size. ⚠️content warning⚠️ if you’re not squeamish—swipe through for a closer look. all together my fibroids weighed around 500 grams—approximately the weight of a six-month old fetus. recovery has been hard. instead of pushing through the pain, i’ve had to slow down and listen to my body literally demand that i do less. it’s been uncomfortable to surrender and face how attached i am to being productive. i’ve had to rediscover my value outside of the framework of achievement. this forced stillness will be one of my greatest teachers. it’s a portal for deep bodily and psychic change—a chance to see everything differently. more on the surgery and recovery process as i continue to heal but today i’m joyful, fibroid-free and finally back at home in my body. #itsallinmygut

it’s been three weeks since my abdominal myomectomy. my team at @uclahealth took amazing care of me and i don’t take that for granted, especially as a black woman. they removed 23 fibroids of every shape and size. ⚠️content warning⚠️ if you’re not squeamish—swipe through for a closer look. all together my fibroids weighed around 500 grams—approximately the weight of a six-month old fetus. recovery has been hard. instead of pushing through the pain, i’ve had to slow down and listen to my body literally demand that i do less. it’s been uncomfortable to surrender and face how attached i am to being productive. i’ve had to rediscover my value outside of the framework of achievement. this forced stillness will be one of my greatest teachers. it’s a portal for deep bodily and psychic change—a chance to see everything differently. more on the surgery and recovery process as i continue to heal but today i’m joyful, fibroid-free and finally back at home in my body. #itsallinmygut

pitched this to @ntytimes last summer because i was broken. broken by the statistics. broken by lack of care for us. broken by my countless conversations with black women about their fear of dying at the birth of their child. but my brokenness also held strength. enough to reach out to my friend and @loomhq advisor @drericacahill to write something i couldn’t find anywhere: an actionable and compassionate tool that centered black pregnant women needs and mobilized care providers to directly acknowledge medical racism. this guide is not perfect but it’s a start and i hope more tools and research will flow from it. the key to this guide are the antiracist prenatal and postpartum care preferences i conceptualized and then co-created with @drericacahill for @loomhq. we built them to hopefully lessen the burden for black women and build the groundwork these difficult but potentially life-saving conversations. the preferences are linked at the end of the guide and can be found at them at the link in the @loomhq bio. thank you to: @lorettajross @artivistmonicaraye of @sistersong_woc for your groundbreaking reproductive justice work which anchored this guide and deeply informs my work at @loomhq and how we’re building our platform. to @resmaamenakem for his incredible book and somatic approach to racial trauma, your push to “operationalize” helped me build the framework for this guide. to @adjo_gold and @blackmamasmatter, for reading multiple drafts of this guide and providing incredible insights. you made this guide better. lastly, thank you @jessgrosewrites for accepting my pitch within five minutes of me sending it over last june, long before the world changed forever. share this article and these preferences far and wide. feedback is welcome. we must come together to protect black birth, black women and black families. 🙏🏾✊🏾✌🏾#trustblackwomen #protectblackwomen

took some self portraits today. to celebrate my life, my freedom and the fact that i am my ancestors wildest dream. ⁠ black womxn deserve freedom. we deserve joy. we deserve pleasure. we deserve love. we deserve energy. we deserve rest. we deserve space. we deserve land. we deserve healthcare. we deserve access. we deserve justice. ⁠ treat us gently. tenderly. the strength you see is because we never were given the option to be anything else but. ⁠

thanks to @bustle for sharing about my work and LOOM. one thing i quickly discovered while working as a doula was that pregnant people clung to the same desires and interests that they’ve always had. being pregnant and becoming a mother, didn’t mean they didn’t want to be sexual anymore, dream big or take risks. if anything, they yearned for those things even more or felt finally empowered enough to say “no” and fiercely claim themselves for the first time. becoming a mother is potent evolution and our program focuses on holding space for that—without judgement and with modern tools for figuring it out on your terms. all the words are over on bustle.com and you can discover more about our pregnancy and postpartum program at @loomhq 📸: @amyharrity ✨☁️

thanks to @bustle for sharing about my work and LOOM. one thing i quickly discovered while working as a doula was that pregnant people clung to the same desires and interests that they’ve always had. being pregnant and becoming a mother, didn’t mean they didn’t want to be sexual anymore, dream big or take risks. if anything, they yearned for those things even more or felt finally empowered enough to say “no” and fiercely claim themselves for the first time. becoming a mother is potent evolution and our program focuses on holding space for that—without judgement and with modern tools for figuring it out on your terms. all the words are over on bustle.com and you can discover more about our pregnancy and postpartum program at @loomhq 📸: @amyharrity ✨☁️

3 things happened in 2008. 1. i got accepted to goldsmiths to pursue my postgraduate studies in contemporary art history and was set on moving to london from cape town to start my new chapter. 2. gwyneth paltrow, an expat in london, quietly started a little newsletter called goop. 3. i signed up for that newsletter. #earlyadopter over the past 13 years, i’ve watched goop shift from a passion project into a global force that’s expanded minds, ruffled more than a few feathers but most importantly catalyzed the conversation around wellness. goop was one of the first outlets to champion my work back in 2017. so although it feels surreal, it also feels aligned that while hard at work building @loomhq, i’ll moonlighting at @goop as the new co-host of their podcast. this collaboration is about evolution. it’s about bridging a gap. i recognize that @goop is a deeply white space that hasn’t represented the full expanse of my lived experience as a nigerian-american lesbian woman or others like me — but right now we need bridges. spaces will remain white, homogenous and self-referential unless we do something different. and this feels different. i hope you’ll feel it too. our first episode together is a heartfelt chat about our synchronicity, why healthcare needs to evolve, black fatigue, the innate privilege of orgasms and our hope for women at large. my sweet and brilliant @gwynethpaltrow — thank you for your friendship, trust and giving me more space to be my nerdy, esoteric and curious self. ✨

black maternal health week begins today. i could unpack the devastating outcomes that face my sisters, or the disproportionate impact of pandemic on us. instead, i’m choosing #blackjoy and uplifting fellow black female authors who’ve written specifically about pregnancy and the postpartum experience. we are a rare breed. these were the ONLY books i found published by publishing houses versus self-published. this distinction is important. why? because it means that these publishing houses, which are typically white-led, put their money behind black women. there should be more of that and more of us—hopefully soon. how can you help? buy and amplify our books. ask for reissues of older books that have gone out of print. also write and tag publishers—let them know you want to read more titles by black womxn. your voice matters. and even if these books don’t speak to black womxn directly, they stem from black thought and uplift our voices. they see womxn as empowered whole people—who happen to be pregnant and dive into our unique needs—whether that’s navigating fibroids, breastfeeding and feeding challenges due to the trauma of slavery, blended familes, intergenerational parenting, and the traditions of our ancestors. at 2pm pst today, i’ll be joining @blackmamasmatter for a panel exploring how black maternal health can be protected and optimized together with tech. more at the last swipe 🙏🏾🖤

black maternal health week begins today. i could unpack the devastating outcomes that face my sisters, or the disproportionate impact of pandemic on us. instead, i’m choosing #blackjoy and uplifting fellow black female authors who’ve written specifically about pregnancy and the postpartum experience. we are a rare breed. these were the ONLY books i found published by publishing houses versus self-published. this distinction is important. why? because it means that these publishing houses, which are typically white-led, put their money behind black women. there should be more of that and more of us—hopefully soon. how can you help? buy and amplify our books. ask for reissues of older books that have gone out of print. also write and tag publishers—let them know you want to read more titles by black womxn. your voice matters. and even if these books don’t speak to black womxn directly, they stem from black thought and uplift our voices. they see womxn as empowered whole people—who happen to be pregnant and dive into our unique needs—whether that’s navigating fibroids, breastfeeding and feeding challenges due to the trauma of slavery, blended familes, intergenerational parenting, and the traditions of our ancestors. at 2pm pst today, i’ll be joining @blackmamasmatter for a panel exploring how black maternal health can be protected and optimized together with tech. more at the last swipe 🙏🏾🖤

black maternal health week begins today. i could unpack the devastating outcomes that face my sisters, or the disproportionate impact of pandemic on us. instead, i’m choosing #blackjoy and uplifting fellow black female authors who’ve written specifically about pregnancy and the postpartum experience. we are a rare breed. these were the ONLY books i found published by publishing houses versus self-published. this distinction is important. why? because it means that these publishing houses, which are typically white-led, put their money behind black women. there should be more of that and more of us—hopefully soon. how can you help? buy and amplify our books. ask for reissues of older books that have gone out of print. also write and tag publishers—let them know you want to read more titles by black womxn. your voice matters. and even if these books don’t speak to black womxn directly, they stem from black thought and uplift our voices. they see womxn as empowered whole people—who happen to be pregnant and dive into our unique needs—whether that’s navigating fibroids, breastfeeding and feeding challenges due to the trauma of slavery, blended familes, intergenerational parenting, and the traditions of our ancestors. at 2pm pst today, i’ll be joining @blackmamasmatter for a panel exploring how black maternal health can be protected and optimized together with tech. more at the last swipe 🙏🏾🖤