Sister Song

SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. Indigenous women, women of color, and trans* people have always fought for Reproductive Justice, but the term was invented in 1994. Right before attending the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, where the entire world agreed that the individual right to plan your own family must be central to global development, a group of black women gathered in Chicago in June of 1994. They recognized that the women’s rights movement, led by and representing middle class and wealthy white women, could not defend the needs of women of color and other marginalized women and trans* people. We needed to lead our own national movement to uplift the needs of the most marginalized women, families, and communities.

• Danielle Lyles BartonGeorgia State Coordinator

• Labor Support TrainingSisterSong’s Labor Support Training is a three-hour training that covers pregnancy basics, the early labor through the early postpartum period, how to navigate the birthing process as a doula would…
• We OutsideThe We Outside series is a direct response to health disparities that can arise for pregnant people as a result of inadequate information about nutrition and exercise.
• We InsideWe Inside, an extension of We Outside, is an educational initiative that seeks to fill in the gaps created by the healthcare system, due to minimal discourse about perinatal nutrition.
• Black (in)Fertility Awareness WeekBlack (in)Fertility Awareness Week (BIAW) is a bold and necessary call to action rooted in reproductive justice and human rights.
• Birth Justice Care FundThe Birth Justice Care Fund, an initiative of SisterSong’s Birth Justice Team, is a needs-based program serving residents of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Florida.
• Let’s Talk About Sex ConferenceLet’s Talk About Sex brings together new and experienced activists to break the taboos that prevent us from talking about sex in our personal and political lives, and even in RJ groups.

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Based in

West End

Founded

2006

EIN

51-0544927

Staff

1

Website

sistersong.net