Montuna

09/28/2026

Por el derecho básico de cada persona/mujer el ser capaz de tomar sus propias decisiones relacionadas con la maternidad, sin tener que poner en riesgo su salud o su vida.

09/23/2026

There is something deeply powerful about training Spanish-speaking doulas in a country that has too often tried to silence our languages, erase our ancestral knowledge, and separate us from our cultural practices.

Formar doulas en español es más que enseñar herramientas de acompañamiento. Es recordar, recuperar y sostener saberes que nuestras comunidades han llevado en el cuerpo por generaciones.

We are still here. Seguimos hablando. Seguimos acompañando. Seguimos sanando. 🌿

And every time we enter a room to care for our people, we’re bringing an army of ancestors with us.

Porque nunca llegamos soles.
Llegamos con quienes vinieron antes. ❤️‍🔥

Felicidades 2ndo cohort de Sokana Collective ! Gracias por confiar en nuestras enseñanzas de Montuna 🫀

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdoXoSnEUKr/?stkn=cWFqY3EwYmdmeHVs

08/21/2026

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'Mostly the cases are extreme and a matter of life or death because Afghan women are no longer able to look after themselves or seek basic medical advice freely'

08/20/2026

Thank you, everyone, for all your love and well wishes. 💜

My shoulder continues to need regular physical therapy, and for now, we are still unable to physically support others in their healing journeys. I suppose there is an eternal lesson here: healer, heal thyself.

In the meantime, we are referring folks to the amazing healers and practitioners in our community. You can find our community list at www.montuna.org/nosotres. Please reach out if you need help finding a specific referral.

🌿 Montuna will be closed until August 30. When we return, we will be offering virtual and spiritual support only while my body continues its own healing.
And during this pause, I will be welcoming my 48th turn around the sun. ☀️ I’ll spend some of that time contemplating this journey while visiting Alaaskaq and lands stewarded since time immemorial by Indigenous peoples, including Iñupiat peoples, and later traveling through Apsáalooke stolen homelands.

May Spirit guide my heart—and all of ours—toward a world that is more just, equitable, respectful, reciprocal, and compassionate.

With gratitude, always. 🌿

08/18/2026

In just a few days—on August 25—I’ll officially complete another trip around the sun. 48, to be exact.☀️💜

This year, instead of birthday gifts, I’m asking my community to help me celebrate in a way that feels much more meaningful.

I created a birthday fundraiser for , an organization I’m proud to serve as a board member. Their work is deeply aligned with the future I want to help build—one rooted in reproductive justice, compassionate care, access, dignity, and community.

So this year, my birthday wish is simple:

💜 Skip the gift.
💜 Donate whatever you can.
💜 Help me turn another year around the sun into an opportunity to support this important work.

Whether it’s $5, $25, $50, or whatever feels right, every contribution matters. And if donating isn’t possible right now, sharing the fundraiser with your community is also a meaningful way to support.

I’m grateful to celebrate 48 years surrounded by people who believe, as I do, in collective care, reproductive freedom, and showing up for one another.

Thank you for celebrating with me and for helping me put a little more care into the world. ✨

🎈 Birthday fundraiser link in bio.

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08/18/2026

Fetal personhood is a reproductive justice issue because it is about power: who is recognized as a full person, who gets to make decisions about our bodies, and who is most likely to be surveilled, controlled, or criminalized. By granting embryos or fetuses legal rights that can be placed above those of pregnant people, fetal personhood threatens abortion access, miscarriage care, IVF, contraception, and other forms of reproductive health care.

Its harms are also not experienced equally. Black, Indigenous, immigrant, disabled, low-income, LGBTQ+ communities, and people already impacted by policing and family surveillance are more likely to experience the consequences of pregnancy criminalization.

Reproductive justice requires more than protecting access to abortion. It means protecting our right to bodily autonomy, to have children, to not have children, and to raise our families in safe and sustainable communities—without state control, punishment, or criminalization.

Shout out to Pregnancy Justice and If/When/How for the amazing work they do every.single.day!!

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08/17/2026

🎂 For my birthday this year, I’m asking for something that means a lot to me.

Instead of gifts, I’m inviting my community to help me support Repro TLC and their work making reproductive care, information, and support more accessible to the people who need it.
Reproductive justice and community care are not simply part of my work—they are deeply connected to how I understand love, solidarity, and caring for one another. 💜

So, if you were thinking about buying me a birthday drink, dinner, or a little something, consider putting that love toward Repro TLC instead. Every contribution—whatever the amount—becomes part of something bigger.

And if donating isn’t possible right now, sharing the fundraiser is also a beautiful birthday gift. (Gracias!)

🎈 Support my birthday fundraiser here:
https://givebutter.com/support.../jacobajackiecruzrodrguez

Here’s to another trip around the sun filled with ✨community, care, reproductive freedom, healing, and collective power. ✨


www.reprotlc.org

Repro TLC (formerly Midwest Access Project) fills gaps nationwide in clinical training and education while mobilizing our network to advocate for more just and equitable sexual and reproductive care.

08/12/2026

Loretta Ross on Reproductive Justice Futurism, and the dangers of gene selections.
Do you even imagine what would the world look like?

Watch the full conversation between Loretta J. Ross & Thomas Hübl ...

08/08/2026

Amazing job opportunity to all the Doula. We love out there elevated access is looking for Doulas to support traveler abortion seekers. ❤️

https://www.elevatedaccess.org/get-involved/doulas?fbclid=PARlRTSATj_pNwZG9mAmZkaWQWUMG_BpWAa9KLs0zh76zVS3D2V4TDxmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp2bs_PdgqRaQARNNCRPTT7q5GCZgytKryHjYVNXUp6NqTvLbk3XNC_SF72G7_aem_2BJrFxIU0oG6xaR_u2D9tw

Doula Accompaniment Program We are seeking expansive, reproductive justice-centered, community-focused abortion doulas to support passengers traveling to their appointments. About Elevated Access Elevated Access was founded in 2022 in response to increasing restrictions on abortion and gender-affirm...

08/06/2026

Una violación a nuestros derechos humanos