Doulas Decolonising is a collective made up of doulas (and people in related areas who may not call themselves doulas) from across Scotland, Cymru, Éire, England and other areas occupied as the 'UK'. We are Black, Disabled, Queer and Trans run and have a white allies group.
 
Please check out our website for more information on all of our projects and how to access support or get involved.

Our current projects include:

Doula Time Bank

Doulas Decolonising have set up a Time Bank. This is a pooling of our skills, resources and time as members of the Doulas Decolonising collective. The time bank is open for all Black, Brown or other racialised people who are directly affected by, displaced by or diaspora to genocide, colonialism, white supremacy and violence that is or has been supported by Britain at home and worldwide. And is intentionally inclusive of people who are multiply marginalised.

Some of the funds raised here will go towards covering the costs that are incurred when providing free support eg taxis, buying food or other essentials for the person receiving support etc. Doulas provide their time for free.

90 Day Co-Care Boost

Doulas Decolonising 90 Day Co-Care Boost brings together libernatalism and the practice of co-care as part of full spectrum community care. Co-care (community, collective, autonomous abolitionist, redistribution reparations, expansive) is the act of reciprocal sharing within the community.  The 90 Day Co-Care Boost is based on the principle of 90 days of postnatal rest and recovery, something we see across many cultures worldwide. 

The Doulas Decolonising 90 Day Co-Care Boost is a one-off pot of £10 x 90 days for a total of £900. Alongside the 90 Day Co-Care Boost will be access to our collective of doulas and the support that we offer. The funds raised here will go towards this fund and we are completely community funded, which means that we do not have any external, state or charity funders. This means that this fund unfortunately is incredibly limited.

We Do(ula) Solidarity

Our We Do(ula) Solidarity campaign currently is supporting Kakuma LGBTQIA+ Refugee Camp in Kenya and South Sudan, we regularly share their fundraising across our platforms and ask our community members to provide continued support.

Doulas For Palestine

In October 2024 we put together a comprehensive statement on our support for Palestine and the state of reproductive healthcare under Israeli occupation and genocide. We have since been supporting and participating in campaigning and calls for healthcare support for Palestinian people.

Tech Bank

The Used Tech Bank is a scheme for us to recycle and put the full use the technology that already exists and help to limit the need for us to buy brand new, as buying brand new contributes to and co-signs the capitalist genocide in the Congo and elsewhere.

Boycott Campaigns

Through the Healthcare Boycott Campaign we will be calling for the boycott of businesses, universities, charities, research projects and more that are on the BDS list, and explaining why it is important that as people interacting with healthcare systems, that we join together in union and support the Healthcare Boycott Campaign. Through targeted and consistent boycotting, we can see feasible change.

As part of our focus on Boycott Campaigns, we join the call for a Tech Boycott Campaign and we are asking all doulas and supporters of Doulas Decolonising in SCEE+OUK and worldwide to get involved.
 
Community Building

The purpose of Doulas Decolonising is community building and creating safe structures of support and togetherness, not replicating oppressive systems of aid, charity or being a service provider. We have a Discord server for our collective members which is a space for hanging out as well as learning, with extensive resources, reading lists and access to community peer support.

For people who access our community support, we also bring them into a safe and supportive community that does not end once the support has been accessed. This is a lifetime of dedication to our community and reproductive and perinatal health and wellness as part of full spectrum community care and libernatalism.
 
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