Three things are happening at once.
Not a complaint. Documentation.
No one is protecting women right now — not the Court, not the platforms, not the marketplaces built to extract from us. 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
How Social Media Platforms Extract Wealth From the Communities That Built Them.
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. No investors. We build for the women we serve, not for a valuation.
Labora Collective
The publishing platform. The Bloomberg of women's health.
Yemaya
The professional arm. Home for clinicians, doulas, midwives, journalists, 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 book and the network share one name. One architect, one body of work, one brand across every surface.
Yemaya's Legacy · Dr. Yamicia Connor · A Diosa Ara bookThe Clinical Partners Network.
Two ways in. Both anti-extractive. No VC, no algorithm, no bleeding our partners.
By invitation
Six tiers. Free, in exchange for clinical or editorial contribution.
By application
The Research Access Beta, for our first 10 partners. Anyone can apply, and we talk with every applicant.
Selective on purpose. Nazis, racists, rapists, and toxic misogynists — not welcome. We believe in telling the truth about women's bodies and women's lives, and enjoying ourselves while we do it.
If you have something to bring.
Here's what we'll help you do. Arrangements get worked out 1:1.
Want your own site or newsletter? That's The Codex, our publishing platform — join the waitlist at yourcodex.app.
Bundle and build with us.
Work alongside LC, share readers, co-publish. Reader-curated, not platform-curated.
The six-tier collaboration structure.
Free, in exchange for clinical or editorial contribution. Six levels — five clinical, one media.
Clinical Advisor
Review one Labora Rounds report per quarter. Early access + a complimentary Diosa Insiders membership.
Clinical Contributor
Submit written pieces or voice notes for LC journals. Editorial support, bylined publication.
Clinical Partner
Organizations with their own audiences. Distribute LC content, co-host events. Seats and licensing rights set up in a conversation.
Strategic Partner
Institutions and foundations. Co-develop research and clinical frameworks. Custom intelligence.
Institutional Partner
Hospital networks and training programs. Enterprise licensing of LC content at scale.
Media Partner
Journalists, podcasters, columnists with audiences. Co-publish, editorial infrastructure, full network access.
Join Yemaya.
Yemaya, the Clinical Partners Network, is in beta. We're opening it to our first 10 partners: researchers, clinicians, and organizations who help us build it. Every partner gets the data from Labora Rounds, our research database, that a contribution needs. The Research Access Beta goes further: full use for your own work — search it, pull data for your own analysis, and cite it under a license — by application, under a separate research access agreement. Anyone can apply, and we talk with every applicant. Invited partners join free under the partner agreement. We'll keep inviting people directly too.
Researchers and clinicians
Apply for the Research Access Beta. We'll talk, and if it's a fit you'll sign the partner agreement and the research access agreement online.
Apply (choose "Research Access Beta")
Organizations
Seats, custom data pulls, and help with your questions. We set this up in a conversation with each organization.
Readers
Labora Collective membership is the reader side: the journals, the community, and read access to our research.
The mechanics, briefly.
The Intelligence Engine
One per quarter
Invited partners submit one piece of clinical or editorial intelligence per quarter. A written column, or a dictated story we synthesize. An agreed amount of research review — checking and verifying facts in our research database — also counts as the quarter's contribution.
Join Yemaya.
For clinicians, journalists, advocates, and patients serious about changing how women's health evidence, care, and intelligence circulate. You don't have to join to contribute — send an article or a voice note, and we'll shape it with you.
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