“Re-Membering Our Wombs: Restoring & Harnessing Our Postpartum Power”

Day 5 of Postpartum Awareness Week centers the womb as a site of both power and vulnerability, bringing visibility to the disproportionate reproductive health challenges experienced by Black and Brown women and birthing people and how these realities directly impact postpartum survival and long-term healing.

From fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS, adenomyosis, ovarian cysts, and menstrual irregularities to delayed diagnoses and unnecessary hysterectomies, this day names the real and lived impacts of medical racism, environmental injustice, and systemic neglect. Too often, pain is dismissed, symptoms are minimized, and invasive interventions are offered without exploring holistic or less harmful options.

These conditions do not disappear once pregnancy is achieved. They often intensify risk during and after birth, contributing to complications, prolonged recovery, near-misses, and preventable maternal deaths. Postpartum is not a moment. It is a lifelong continuum, and womb health is essential to healing, presence, and overall well-being after birth.

This gathering is held as a sacred night of storytelling and collective witnessing. Through Playback Theatre, lived experiences of womb health, medical harm, resilience, and healing will be shared and brought to life, creating space for participants to be seen, believed, and held in community.

This space centers Black and Brown women and birthing people while inviting men, partners, and families into deeper awareness, care, and accountability. Healing the womb is a collective responsibility.

Together, we break invisibility, restore dignity, and affirm that womb health is postpartum health, and both are essential to life.