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05/10/2026

This Mother’s Day, we invite you to hold these stories close.

FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family is more than an anthology. .tdp is a living archive of Black motherhood, birth, lineage, healing, memory + becoming.

Created alongside 11 Birthlooms Storytellers across Massachusetts, these pages carry the voices of mothers, daughters, midwives, and families reflecting on what it means to birth, nurture, remember + return to ourselves.

Within FORESYTHE, motherhood becomes water, refuge, resistance, softness, survival, prayer + home.

“Before the sound of the heartbeat comes the sound of the water.” — Priscilla Andrade |

“That’s the kind of mother I want to be… because she’ll call anyway. Because it feels like home.” — Charlotte Shook |

These stories remind us that mothering is ancestral work. That our bodies carry histories of grief + joy, rupture + resilience. That Black birth + Black motherhood deserve to be witnessed with tenderness, complexity + care.

This season, we hope FORESYTHE finds its way into the hands of mothers, daughters, aunties, grandmothers, birthworkers, healers + anyone longing for stories that nourish + affirm.

Let these words sit beside your morning tea, your open windows, your quiet moments of reflection + your family gatherings this Mother’s Day weekend. Gift a copy to someone you love or to yourself.

Featuring our Birthlooms Storytellers:

Priscilla Andrade | Stephanie Campbell | Sabrina Correia | Soraya Dosantos | Joëlle Fontaine | Lanisha Harrison | Lyv Norris | Ebere Oparaeke | Mardia Pierre | Jo-Anna Rorie | Charlotte Shook

Together with a foreword by Nashira Baril from + the visual and cinematic work of .black.birthing created by + , FORESYTHE stands as an offering rooted in remembrance, reclamation, and collective care.

Order your copy today and carry these stories forward. 🌸

BlackMaternalHealth

05/10/2026

ARTIFACT + HEIRLOOMS | MIDWIFERY + THE BLACK BIRTHING FAMILY

On this Mother’s Day, we honor the mothers, grandmothers, midwives, doulas, aunties, healers + birthing families whose lives + stories live within Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family.

These visual archives, through film, photography, oral histories, perinatal artifacts, heirlooms + testimony, are more than documentation. They are living evidence of Black birth, Black care, Black memory + Black survival.

Created alongside our Birthlooms Storytellers, this work traces the sacred + complicated landscapes of mothering across generations. It holds the postpartum tears + kitchen table laughter, the prayer closets + hospital rooms, the grief, the tenderness, the ancestral memory + the people who mother us back to ourselves.

Every portrait is an act of reclamation.
Every testimony is an offering.
Every artifact carried into this archive reminds us: we were always here.

As we celebrate Mother’s Day, we lift up the beauty, labor, brilliance + truth of Black birthing families + the perinatal practitioners who continue to hold entire communities through care.

May these stories remind us that mothering is not only biological, it is communal, ancestral, embodied + deeply political.

If you are witnessing this work, you are now part of the circle.

May you view slowly.
May you remember your own lineage of care.
May you ask yourself gently:

What story do I live to tell?

04/21/2026

Spring is arriving, and with it comes a season of blooming, remembering, and making space for the stories that carry us.

FORESYTHE is here.

We are honored to share the official release of:

FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family
A Community-Written Anthology

After a year of gathering, witnessing, and building alongside 11 Black birthing women, families, midwives, and perinatal practitioners across Massachusetts, this offering has finally come into the world.

As the days grow longer and new life begins to unfold around us this Spring, FORESYTHE invites us to return to what roots us: memory, lineage, care, and the stories we carry forward.

Featuring our Birthlooms Storytellers:

Priscilla Andrade | Stephanie Campbell | Sabrina Correia
Soraya Dosantos | Joëlle Fontaine | Lanisha Harrison
Lyv Norris | Ebere Oparaeke | Mardia Pierre
Jo-Anna Rorie | Charlotte Shook

FORESYTHE is both archive and offering, a collection of intimate stories centering Black birthing life, maternal health, reproductive justice, intergenerational memory, and collective care.

Within these pages, joy and grief live side by side. So do tenderness, resilience, transformation, and love.

This spring, gift yourself or someone you love, a copy of FORESYTHE. Let these stories sit beside your morning light, your open windows, your quiet moments of reflection, and your hopes for what can bloom.

Together with the visual and cinematic work of .black.birthing created by , this anthology forms a living archive rooted in remembrance and reclamation.

Order your copy today and step into this season with stories that nourish, witness, and endure.

MaternalHealth

04/20/2026

Spring is coming, and with it, we return to story.

Join us for the next gathering in the Birthlooms Storytellers Circle Series, an intimate afternoon of readings, reflection, and community dialogue centered on Black birthing life, memory, and collective care.

FORESYTHE | Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family | May Storytellers
Hosted by .black.birthing
Sunday, May 31, 2026
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
📍 | 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA

Following the launch of FORESYTHE, we continue to gather in the spirit of witnessing and becoming.

This May circle invites you into an intimate space of live readings from Birthlooms Storytellers and anthology contributors, holding the voices and lived experiences of Black birthing families and practitioners across Massachusetts.

Featured Birthlooms Storytellers:
Stephanie Campbell
Sabrina Correia
Lanisha Harrison
Lyv Norris

Together, we will make space for intergenerational reflection, reproductive justice, and collective care, continuing to tend this living archive of Black birthing life and legacy.

This is a season of listening.
A season of remembering.
A season of holding each other through story.

🎟 RSVP at the link in bio
📚 Order your copy of FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family

This gathering is part of the Birthlooms Storytellers Circle Series, seasonal offerings rooted in remembrance, storytelling, and community care. Come listen. Come reflect. Come be in dialogue as we continue building this living archive together.

Here’s to remembering.
Here’s to becoming.
Here’s to telling the fuller story, together.

04/01/2026

FORESYTHE | MIDWIFERY AND THE BLACK BIRTHING FAMILY | SUNDAY APRIL 5TH 2026

Join us as we conclude the Soft Launch Weekend of Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family with the official anthology launch of…

FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family

This community-written collection centers the voices, memories + lived experiences of 11 Black birthing families, midwives, doulas + perinatal practitioners across Massachusetts.

Official .tdp Anthology Launch + Storytellers Reading + Talkback
🗓 Sunday, April 5, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
📍 Just Book-ish |

During this intimate gathering, guests will hear live readings from our Birthlooms Storytellers + anthology contributors, followed by a community dialogue reflecting on lineage, maternal health, reproductive justice + collective care.

Together we will hold the written archive alongside the visual + cinematic archive of the Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family documentary project.

This gathering also marks the launch of the Birthlooms Storytellers Circle Series, a continuing dialogue series throughout the spring and summer.

Upcoming Storytellers Circle Dates
• April 5
• May 31
• June 14
• July 19
• August 30

Each gathering is an offering of remembrance, witnessing, and shared narrative, creating space to hold the living archive of Black birthing stories and legacy.

Come sit with the stories. Come witness this living archive.

🎟 RSVP at the link in bio

04/01/2026

Our Featured BIRTHLOOMS STORYTELLERS

We are honored to officially release FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family, a Community-Written Anthology that gathers stories, witnesses, and co-journeys alongside 11 Black birthing women, their families, their legacies of midwives, and perinatal practitioners across Massachusetts.

We are grateful for the journey + embodied empowerment that this storytelling practice has amplified.

Thank you Priscilla, Stephanie, Sabrina, Soraya, Joëlle, Lanisha, Lyv, Ebere, Mardia, Jo-Anna and Charlotte.

May your stories forever bring you home to yourself.

Big love as well to our Community Aunties Nayomi, Jasmine and Sahita who co-witnessed and co-journeyed alongside each storyteller.

Thank you to for providing the most inspiring, creative space for our stories to grow and stretch.

And to our Editor, Stefanie, who dreamt up this collaborative space for stories to reveal and health. Thank You!

FORESYTHE lives alongside the visual and cinematic work of Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family.

Together, they form a multidimensional archive rooted in storytelling as a practice of documentation, remembrance and reclamation.

These stories extend beyond the individual, illuminating the networks of care that sustain Black birthing life and legacy.

Here’s to remembering.
Here’s to becoming.
Here’s to telling the fuller story, together.

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12/07/2023

HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR COPY OF "FORESYTHE” YET?

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Treat yourself to this cozy 5-part coffee table photo journal by
tdp is the creative manifestation of Jamaican-born/Boston-based Photographer + Therapist + Founder/Lead Creative behind , Stefanie Belnavis, LMHC, BC-DMT.

This coffee table styled photography journal centers the visual stories + narratives of BIPOC communities of color throughout the year of 2020.

This First Issue is in 5-parts + explores
from a multicultural perspective.

Grab your copy(s) today! And get a copy(s) for a friend! How to order? See the link in our bio to purchase your own coffee table photo journal today!

Issues 1-5
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12/04/2023

INSIDE FORESYTHE | get a glimpse of the liberating journey of stills + stories that line each page of each vibrant + diverse issue.

Foresythe No. 1
Issue 3/5
(c) 2020
featuring my family

Foresythe is the creative manifestation of Jamaican-born/Boston-based Photographer + Therapist + Founder/Lead Creative behind , Stefanie Belnavis, LMHC, R-DMT.

This quarterly coffee table styled photography journal centers the visual stories + narratives of BIPOC communities of color throughout the year of 2020.

This First Issue is in 5-parts + explores
from a multicultural perspective.

Grab your copy(s) today! And get a copy(s) for a friend! How to order? See the link in our bio to purchase your own coffee table photo journal today!

#2020

12/03/2023

Re-introducing “FORESYTHE” | .tdp by ! Order your copy(s) today!

Foresythe is the creative manifestation of Jamaican-born/Boston-based Photographer + Founder/Lead Creative behind , Stefanie Belnavis, BC-DMT, LMHC

This 5-part coffee table styled photography journal centers the liberating visual stills + stories/narratives of BIPOC communities of color throughout the year of 2020 through a series called from varying multicultural perspective.

Grab your copy(s) today! And get a copy(s) for a friend as well! How to order? See link in bio to purchase your own coffee table photo journal!

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05/09/2021

“Catherina, originally Catherine by my mother, my father wanted to give it a hispanic twist, so he changed the "e" to an "a". My true story began when I came to understand who Jesus is; how I could have a meaningful relationship with him and the impact it would have on all relationships in my life. From family, friends, marriage, and children, to my passion as a dancer and therapist, Jesus has directed my path in all that I do in this world, and how I strive to serve him in the purpose he has for me and the relationships in this blessed life he has sacrificed for me.”
- CATHERINA ()
Mover + Mother + Dance Movement Therapist

Photography by
Location: Texas

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