The network of the Labora Collective.
Owned, built, and run by women of color.
None of them are accidents.
That is not a marketplace. That is an extraction system.
We are not waiting. We are building our own road.
3.62 / 100k — homicide is the leading cause of pregnancy-associated death.
3.2× — Black women die at 44.8 vs. white women at 14.2.
84–93% — share preventable per CDC review committees.
Algorithms suppress women of color, reproductive health voices, and Black creators.
The platforms degrade your reach the moment you pay them.
The institutions are not coming back. The platforms were never coming.
We are responding to both.
A VC-funded competitor is locked into a chain that ends in suppression:
Requires growth to satisfy a valuation.
Requires extraction — take rates, ads, engagement.
Requires algorithms to maximize revenue per user.
Suppress voices the system doesn't reward.
We're self-funded. We don't need that chain. A competitor would have to give up the valuation that funded them.
A platform. Not a publisher. The Bloomberg of women's health.
Physician-led. Independent of investor pressure — which means we can build for the women we serve, not the valuation we're chasing.
Self-funded publishing platform. Cross-subsidy by design — LC funds DA's clinical mission. Built so women's health voices can actually grow.
LC's professional membership arm. Yoruba goddess of the sea, mother of all. Home for clinicians, doulas, midwives, journalists, columnists, podcasters, and advocates.
Both are anti-extractive. No VC. No algorithm running against you.
Six tiers of invited partnership. Free in exchange for clinical or editorial contribution and distribution.
For practitioners, researchers, organizations, and media that we name and recruit directly.
Three professional membership tiers, paid. For clinicians, advanced practitioners, and small collectives who want in without waiting for an invitation.
Distinct from Labora Collective's reader subscription — this is the professional arm.
"Nazis, racists, rapists, and toxic misogynists not welcome. We don't believe in free speech as a business model. We believe in uplifting women."
Free. In exchange for distribution and clinical contribution.
Clinicians and researchers. Review one Labora Rounds report per quarter. Receive early access + full LC membership.
Clinicians, birth workers, and patients. Submit written pieces or voice notes for publication in LC journals with editorial support and bylined publication.
Organizations with their own audiences — doula collectives, etc. Distribute LC content and co-host events. Five institutional seats + content licensing rights.
Major institutions and foundations. Co-develop research and clinical frameworks. Co-ownership credit + custom Labora Rounds intelligence.
Hospital networks and large training programs. License LC content for deployment across their systems at scale, under enterprise terms.
Journalists, podcasters, columnists, bulletin publishers, investigative reporters with their own audiences. Co-publish long-form, investigative, op-ed work. First-class members.
Three membership tiers. A marketplace. A revenue share.
Full vault access · marketplace listing · early event invitations.
Adds publication priority, clinical briefings, professional resource library.
For small collectives. Five seats + co-branding for client handouts.
For practitioners with a business, not a thesis. Pick one. Stack if you want.
Your content, your branding, your links. We host, deploy, maintain. Most birth workers want a professional web presence — not to write essays.
Either a recurring section in the LC newsletter, or your own list under our shared Beehiiv account. Your brand. Your sender. We handle deliverability.
Every Tier 3 creator in the pool. Readers compose individual bundles by picking. Earnings scale linearly with how many readers pick you. Floor for the first 6 months.
Creators keep 100% of off-platform income. We don't take from what you already earn.
Pick the one that fits your day. Stack if you want.
Your content, your branding, your links. We host, deploy, maintain. Most birth workers want a professional web presence — not to write essays.
Either a recurring section in the LC newsletter, or your own list under our shared Beehiiv account. Your brand. Your sender. We handle deliverability.
Every Tier 3 creator in the pool. Readers compose individual bundles by picking. Earnings scale linearly with how many readers pick you. Floor for the first 6 months.
Six invited tiers, three open tiers. Editorial publishing path. One piece of clinical intelligence per quarter. 60/40 revenue share in your favor on co-created products.
Creators keep 100% of off-platform income. We don't take from what you already earn.
Not "everyone is welcome." Built with you in mind is different. It's the structural commitment, not the marketing line.
A sample. Not a list.
14-chapter intelligence report. Visual essay live. Audio + book + app shipping next.
Seven topic-bound briefs — Disability, Menopause, Oncology, Climate, Media, Gynecology, Crisis to Care.
30 modules · 4 tiers · 150 assessments. $29 / $69. Live for sale at fieldguide.laboracollective.com.
Sexual wellness platform — essays, exercises, 12-week clinical programs.
Alternative care infrastructure for the post-Dobbs reproductive health crisis. Building what comes next during the crisis — not after.
How to care for minoritized populations without waiting for institutions. A platform that funds the clinical mission — instead of extracting from it.