Our community doulas operate the UK and USA, providing a range of support options and other services.
AZ (she/her)
AZ is an abortion and miscarriage doula based in the UK. She is the founder of the collective and can also be found doula-ing at Doulas Decolonising. Outside of the doula world, AZ is a writer, researcher and facilitator, with a particular focus on gendered racial violence. Ammaarah views her doula practice as a continuation of the ancestral practices that - despite being interrupted and disrupted by colonialism - have found their way to her, so that she can exist in communities of care, love and justice.
Ja’Loni
Ja’Loni is a Black lesbian Muslim writer, facilitator, researcher, and abortion doula based in the Greater Atlanta Metro area. With a formal background in law and policy, Ja’Loni’s work is primarily focused on international human rights, body sovereignty, family policing abolition, and eliminating other forms of patriarchal violence. In addition to being a Community Doula with the Ad’iyah Collective, Ja’Loni is the co-steward of the Transfuturist Collective, an emerging community of queer and trans reproductive care workers resisting anti-Black and anti-Trans violence wherever it exists. Their doula practice is rooted in Black feminist ethics of care and in principles of mutual aid, harm reduction, and disability justice.
Sarah MH (she/they)
Sarah is a full spectrum doula and abortion storyteller who loves people who have abortions. After her abortion she became a doula to support her community in accessing abortion care. They honor their ancestral traditions of abortion care as exercising bodily autonomy, joy and freedom..
Sarah A (she/her)
Sarah is a community doula in training based in the UK. While new to this work, Sarah is interested in its context within Islam as a whole, but also specifically from a Shi’i lens and the way our cultures have historically regarded and practiced work in pregnancy endings. She believes that abortion, miscarriage, and the wider reproductive rights movement are integral to all our futures of living lives of dignity and autonomy, and draws upon her past experience in psychology and her current one of working with disenfranchised peoples to support her learning and practice.