Seattle Black Maternal Health Week is a celebration of Black Moms & Black Motherhood including queer, trans, non-binary & gender nonconforming moms, aunties, other mothers, grannies, sister mamas & muvas
Each year, we join
Black Mamas Matter Alliance and Black women across the U.S. for
Black Maternal Health Week to promote and amplify Black maternal health, rights, and reproductive justice.
We seek to further the celebration and awareness of Black maternal health, to build community amongst Black birthworkers and Black birthing people, and to provide resources to support healthy birth outcomes in the Black community. We also seek to bring the Seattle community into the national conversation on the crisis in Black maternal health, with a focus on community-based interventions and solutions. This is the only event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. This year, we join BMMA for the official 2023 programming theme: