Meet Khye

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Hey! I'm glad you're here.

My name is Khye Tyson, and I'm a little bit of everything. My heart beats for my community at the root of everything I do.


I identify as Black(-ity Black!), gender expansive/non-binary, queer, neurodivergent, southern, an auntie, and an educator. All these identities inform the ways in which I work and advocate for those with similar identities.


In 2018, I became a doula and childbirth educator, and in 2019, I founded Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center to serve as a bridge between reproductive health and reproductive justice so that Black people with a variety of intersectioning identities can build the families they desire without being subject to harm, trauma, and death.

What exactly do I do? First and foremost, I work as a reproductive justice “auntie”–community builder, doula, and healer. I am also a Sacred Transition Guide, providing support to families through and out of the many transitions that occur around birth and postpartum life. I am an educator with over 10 years of experience working with people of all ages, literally from birth to adulthood.


I also pride myself on being a thought leader and provocateur. Reproductive justice means that we need to ask the hard questions to understand the problem we are facing and how to eradicate it. For Black folx, that means we need to accurately name the genocide happening against us in the United States, specifically centering the experiences of those descended from trafficked and enslaved Africans.


These are not easy conversations to have, and I am dedicated to bringing this conversation to the forefront in the Black community alongside healing-centered community care. My goal for us is true sovereignty, and in order to attain it, we must understand the forces against us, work together in community, and heal from generational and cultural traumas.


I ground my work in queerness, community, unapologetic Blackness, wholeness, and ancestral reverence. Everything I do is to help us get more free.


In addition to the topics above, I frequently discuss (within the context of family- and community-building) sexual and gender identity, consent, cultural norms and socialization, intersectional theory, self-care, and historically Black forms of survival.

Meet Alanah

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Alanah Armstead (she/her) is a research and writing fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center and a recent graduate from Yale University with a BA in the History of Science and Medicine and MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Outside of advocating for Black maternal health and queer community building, Alanah relentlessly studies Black feminist poetic giants, her favorites being June Jordan and Lucille Clifton.

Meet Marin

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Marin Hart (they/them) is an organizer, sex educator, poet, and research fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center. Marin is from Houston, Texas, and owes much of their reproductive justice education to the kick-ass advocates of the South, though they are currently based in Portland, Oregon. Marin got their bachelor's degree in Gender and Women’s Studies from Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. When Marin is not reading or writing, they love watching terrible reality tv, growing their collection of thrifted button-downs, and going to bed at a reasonable hour.

Meet Jasmine

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Jasmine Charles (they/them) is a queer spiritual director, organizer, and abortion doula who currently serves as the virtual assistant at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center. Jasmine completed their MTS on spiritual and somatic practices in Afro-diasporic religions to better understand expression, healing, and liberation through embodied knowledge. Their work is a reflection of their desires to heal from interpersonal and systemic violence.

Jasmine is constantly informed by healing justice, music, gender, abolition, and a deep belief in Sankofa, the wisdom our ancestors have and share with us daily. They seek intentional community and admire its radical opposition to capitalist ways of living. They trust the womanists, abolitionists, and children that teach them about agency. They value the power of love and the capacity to give and receive it without shame. Jasmine dances to feel free and thanks the Earth for the ways it sustains them.
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