FORESYTHE: Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family is a community-written anthology centering the lived experiences, memories, and testimonies of Black birthing families, midwives, and perinatal practitioners across Massachusetts.

Through intimate storytelling, this collection traces the threads of lineage, maternal health, reproductive justice, and collective care. Each narrative holds the weight of lived experience and the tenderness of memory, revealing how birth, mothering, and care are shaped across generations, across bodies, and across time.

This anthology is both archive and offering.

It lives alongside the visual and cinematic work of the Midwifery + The Black Birthing Family film project, honoring storytelling as a practice of documentation, remembrance, and reclamation. Rooted in community, these stories move beyond individual experience to illuminate the networks of care that sustain Black birthing life and legacy.

Within these pages, readers are invited into a space of literary testimony and shared witnessing, where joy, grief, transformation, and resilience coexist.

This is not only a book to read, but a circle to enter.

To listen.
To remember.
To witness.
To consider the stories we carry, and the ones we are called to tell.