Sabia Wade.
Sabia’s mission is to help others build a more expansive awareness and understanding of reproductive justice and its connection to all systems through care work, education, and community.
Centering the liberation of all people through liberation of the self...
Sabia Wade (she/they)
Black, Queer, CEO, Author, Investor, Educator, Full Spectrum Doula, and expander of Black Luxury
Sabia’s Journey
Sabia was called to birthwork after witnessing the variance in quality of treatment and outcomes across races while working in hospitals and across the medical industrial complex.
Inspired, she shifted her career path from a desire to support people through nursing to advocating for reproductive justice as a Full Spectrum Doula.
Volunteered as a doula for the Prison Birth Project supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people with substance abuse disorders before, during, and after birth.
2015
2018
Founded For the Village, a nonprofit organization that provides doulas at no or low cost to underserved communities in the greater San Diego community.
2019
Founded Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings after not finding a doula training program that reflected who they were. She wanted a doula training program that centered BIPOC & queer-centered, Justice-Oriented, culturally-humble education for birthworkers.
2022
Founded Loads of Pride, a trucking company centered around creating space and employment opportunities for BIPOC and queer community members with the aim of creating sustainable income and wealth generation for underserved communities.
2023
Published my first book (of many), Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free.
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As part of my focus to expand luxury, access, and care across communities, I’m working on a new wine label, SOLOTIS.
Every part of Sabia’s work points back to Reproductive Justice as the solution to building systems, patterns, and defying expectations in ways that allow possibilities for shifting the dominance of capitalism and racism within the ways we exist as a society.
The medical industrial complex is just one of the intricate and intentional systems that enacts harm upon Black and brown and queer and trans bodies.
Care Work. Future Thinking. Innovation. Action.
Birth Neoterist (n.)
a person who is forward-focused and dedicated to innovation and sustainability to create a pathway to a new reality for birth.
Sabia gets tired of talking about the statistics. About what a doula does and why it’s important.
We know the system is not built to serve all people equally. Doulas are serving as bandaids for a backwards system that refuses to see the birthing person holistically.
The system does not slow down, does not allow for connection, for seeing multiple sides of the scenario—it’s all one track minded, policy & profit driven.
To shift the conversations to action and impact, Sabia started to search for a term that represented the conversation past the numbers.
Yes, we know the numbers, now what are we going to DO about it.
Sabia’s goal is to create spaces for BIPOC and queer & trans birthing people to feel heard and seen.
On Black Luxury
Sabia believes that pleasure is a key component to being here, on this earth, and in these bodies.
She is an advocate for creating, seeking, and practicing pleasure in ways that are accessible to you.
When we love, when we laugh, when we find pleasure inside ourselves, our community, in what we eat, do, how we play, we access it less from outside ourselves, we engage less with the so-called-rules of capitalism, colonialism, and consumerism that we are conditioned to follow.
“Feeling good is not frivolous, it is a measure of freedom—not just the physical freedom of the body to pursue the pleasures of the flesh, but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom to feel content, happy, and present in our brief and potent lives.”
— adrienne maree brown
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