LGBT Detroit was invited to present the Togethr Campaign at the 2023 Creating Change Conference in San Fransisco, California. Participants of this workshop learned how to successfully launch an anti-stigma campaign in their local communities. The workshop offered guidance in campaign development, outreach, media, and project management. Each member of the Togethr team writes about their experience.

As a Black queer woman, with a minor medical condition who desires to start a family, I have made peace with the fact that about 34% of large companies in the US cover IVF, that live births per first embryo transfer has a 41% success rate, and that the average cost of one cycle of IVF without insurance can average upwards of $30,000– but what I am having difficulty grappling with is our current fight for reproductive justice.

The following oral history is the result of a recorded conversation as part of an Oral History workshop facilitated by Ado Marcellus Armstrong and Ado Asadullah Muhammad. The workshop took place at the Adodi 2022 Summer Retreat at Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus in Chicago, Illinois.

The 2022 Black Pride Leadership Summit was my first. It was an experience that I will not soon forget. I had the opportunity to meet black queer pride leaders from all over the United States. I even had an opportunity to gain some wisdom from a black pride leader from the United Kingdom.