Three things are happening at once.
This is not a complaint. This is documentation.
No one is protecting women right now. Not the Court. Not the platforms. Not the marketplaces designed to extract every cent of value women generate. The system is doing what it was designed to do.
What follows is sourced. Peer-reviewed. On the record. The receipts are below.
The crisis is manufactured.
- $900 billion cut from Medicaid, signed into law July 4, 2025. Medicaid funds 42% of births in this country.Congressional Budget Office · OBBBA §71113
- $65.8 million in Title X funding frozen on March 31, 2025 — defunding 879 clinics across 23 states. These are where most of America gets contraception, STI testing, and cervical cancer screening.HHS / Office of Population Affairs
- Black maternal mortality: 3.5× the white rate, and widening. The PRAMS surveillance system that tracked maternal outcomes for thirty years was dismantled April 2025. We're flying with the instruments off.CDC · Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- The DHS sensitive-location policy was abandoned — ICE enforcement near hospitals has produced measurable healthcare avoidance among immigrant patients. Maternal outcomes in enforcement-heavy regions are getting worse in real time.Labora Rounds Intelligence Report 13
You speak — they suppress you.
- Facebook's organic reach collapsed from 16% to 2.6% between 2012 and 2024 — an 84% decline. Not because content got worse. Because the platform realized it could charge for access to people who already chose to follow you.Hootsuite / We Are Social Digital Reports
- Facebook's ad delivery skews by race and gender even when advertisers set fully inclusive targeting. Peer-reviewed proof. The algorithm has preferences.Ali et al., Northeastern University, 2019
- The DOJ settled with Meta in 2022 over discriminatory delivery of housing ads. Not because advertisers requested it — the algorithm learned it on its own.U.S. Department of Justice, June 2022
- Black Instagram users were 50% more likely to have accounts disabled. Meta's own internal researchers documented it. Management suppressed the findings.Meta internal research · Washington Post 2021
- UnitedHealth's clinical AI gave Black patients 50% less care for the same level of need. Algorithmic bias is in medicine too.Obermeyer et al., Science, 2019
You build — they extract from you.
- Black creators earn 34% less than white creators for equivalent work. Southeast Asian creators earn 57% less. Same content, different infrastructure.MSL Group / The Influencer League, 2023
- Black founders received 0.4% of all U.S. venture capital in 2024. The racial wealth gap grew $49,950 per household between 2019 and 2022. McKinsey: $1–1.5 trillion/year cost.Crunchbase · Federal Reserve · McKinsey Global Institute
- Substack at ~$650M valuation needs $100M+ ARR to satisfy investors. Most writers can't earn enough to buy lunch. The "how to grow your account" content is not a service — it's a retention mechanism.Stratechery · public Substack disclosures
- Ad fraud costs $12.4–$19.5 billion annually. LinkedIn carries a 25% invalid traffic rate. Facebook settled $40M for inflating video metrics 150–900%.ANA / Juniper Research · Pixalate · Facebook 2019 settlement
We are not waiting. We are building our own road.
— Three pieces · One argument · Read in order —
The Algorithmic Tax
AI makes you 10× faster. Nobody warned you about the tax.
The hidden cost of AI productivity. Why creators become single points of failure when production outpaces absorption — and what gets lost in the gap.
Read the essay →The Suppression Files
Vol. 2 — I Paid to Do Worse.
Organic posts beat paid ones by 37%. The platforms degrade your audience when you pay them. Receipts from real LinkedIn analytics.
Read the essay →What We Built Instead
Three projects. One answer to the tax.
Labora Collective. Yemaya. The Codex. The infrastructure we built when the platforms made it impossible to keep working through them.
Read the essay →One company. Two halves. One network.
Diosa Ara
Physician-led. Independent of investor pressure — which means we can build for the women we serve, not the valuation we're chasing.
Labora Collective
The publishing platform. The Bloomberg of women's health. The infrastructure where women's health voices grow when the algorithms suppress them.
Yemaya
Labora Collective's professional membership arm. Yoruba goddess of the sea, mother of all. The home for clinicians, doulas, midwives, journalists, columnists, podcasters, and advocates working in women's health.
Yemaya across the canon.
Yemaya's Legacy — Dr. Yamicia Connor's pregnancy guide. Yoruba goddess of the sea. Mother of all. The protector. The healer. The one who carries.
The network and the book share one name across the canon. Yemaya runs through every surface of the work — clinical guidance, editorial voice, partner network. The brand is consistent because the architect is consistent.
Yemaya's Legacy · Dr. Yamicia Connor · A Diosa Ara bookThe Codex.
Yemaya's Codex is the playbook. It spells out how the network operates — what it stands for, who's in it, how members participate. The Clinical Partners Network is the program inside it: how clinicians, journalists, and advocates formally join the work.
Two ways into the network. Both are anti-extractive. We don't take VC. We don't run an algorithm against you. We don't bleed our members and we don't bleed our partners.
By invitation
Six tiers of invited partnership. Free in exchange for clinical or editorial contribution and distribution. For practitioners we name and recruit directly.
By membership
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.
Selective on purpose. Nazis, racists, rapists, and toxic misogynists — not welcome. We do not believe in free speech as a business model. We believe in uplifting women, telling the truth about women's bodies and women's lives, and trying to enjoy ourselves while we do it.
If you have something to bring.
Whether you're a birth worker with products to sell, a clinician with something to say, or a journalist with an audience that follows you — there are three concrete things we'll help you do. The arrangements get worked out 1:1 with each partner; the right shape depends on what you're building.
Have your own site.
If you're a birth worker, doula, practitioner, or any woman-of-color professional with a practice and products — we'll help you stand up your own digital home. Sell your products, book your services, run your business. We don't take a cut of what you earn off-platform.
Run an independent newsletter.
If you have something to say to your own list — we'll help you stand it up. Standalone newsletter, your name, your brand, your subscribers. You own the list. We provide the rails and the editorial backbone.
Bundle and build with us.
If you'd rather work alongside Labora Collective and reach the network's combined audience — we bundle, co-publish, share readers. Reader-curated, not platform-curated. Your earnings scale with how many readers pick you.
The six-tier collaboration structure.
Invited partners receive platform access at no cost in exchange for their clinical or editorial contribution and distribution capacity. Six distinct levels — five clinical roles plus one for media — each with a specific contribution shape.
Clinical Advisor
Clinicians and researchers. Review one Labora Rounds report per quarter for clinical accuracy. Receive early access and full LC membership.
Clinical Contributor
Clinicians, birth workers, and patients. Submit written pieces or voice notes for publication in LC journals with editorial support and bylined publication.
Clinical Partner
Organizations with their own audiences — e.g., doula collectives. Distribute LC content and co-host events. Receive five institutional seats and content licensing rights.
Strategic Partner
Major institutions and foundations. Co-develop research and clinical frameworks. Receive co-ownership credit and custom Labora Rounds intelligence.
Institutional Partner
Hospital networks and large training programs. License LC content for deployment across their systems at scale, under enterprise licensing terms.
Media Partner
Journalists, podcasters, columnists, bulletin publishers, and investigative reporters with their own audiences. Co-publish long-form, investigative, and op-ed work; receive editorial infrastructure and network access. First-class members.
Become a member.
Three professional membership tiers — for individual clinicians, advanced practitioners, and small collectives. Pricing is anchored to Labora Collective subscriptions plus a small partner premium. This is Yemaya's professional arm — distinct from Labora Collective's reader subscription. Membership funds the platform, the contributors, and the infrastructure — not investor returns.
Member
Full vault access, marketplace listing, and early event invitations.
Pro
Adds publication priority, clinical briefings, and the professional resource library.
Organization
Designed for small collectives. Five shared seats and co-branding permissions for client handouts.
Frictionless booking. Aligned incentives.
A booking ecosystem for clients seeking verified doulas, lactation consultants, and holistic care providers. Members offer their services through the marketplace and clients book directly. Launches concurrent with the inaugural cohort to establish network density from day one.
- No listing fees. Providers are never charged simply to be listed in the directory — visibility is included with membership.
- 10% booking commission. Flat, transparent. Covers Stripe processing (~2.9%) and infrastructure. We only earn when the practitioner actually secures a client.
- Incentive alignment. By avoiding extractive listing fees, the platform's success is downstream of the practitioner's success — not in tension with it.
The mechanics, briefly.
The Revenue Share
60 / 40
When an invited partner co-authors an educational product, revenue is split 60% to the creator — clinical or editorial expertise — and 40% to LC — instructional design, platform, marketing.
The Intelligence Engine
One per quarter
To sustain the network's clinical value, invited partners submit one piece of clinical or editorial intelligence per quarter to retain free status. Two tracks: a written column or a dictated story synthesized by the LC editorial team.
Join Yemaya.
Whether you're applying for invited partnership or joining through the membership pathway, Yemaya is for clinicians, journalists, and organizations serious about changing how women's health evidence, care, and intelligence circulate.
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