Exploring Birth as a Queer and Trans Journey: Join Our Queer Birth Workshops in London
We’re creating a space for queer and trans people to learn about birth and doula support. Amisha the Birthworker is collaborating with Amniotic Archives to host a unique series of Queer Birth Workshops in London hosted in partnership with Queercircle, a vibrant queer arts, culture, and community hub in Greenwich.
Whether you’re trans, non-binary, gender-diverse, or queer and curious about birth in the future, or you simply want to understand this part of life on your own terms, these workshops are for you. This is a space for learning, reflection, and reimagining what birth could look like outside of cis hetero-normative spaces.
Across two thoughtfully designed sessions, you’ll explore birth from perspectives that traditional antenatal classes often overlook.
🧡 Workshop 1: Birth on Your Terms — Doula Support for Trans People
Ever wondered what a doula does and how doula care can be shaped around trans bodies and identities?
In this session we’ll:
Break down what doula support is and how it works
Discuss how doulas can support across pregnancy, birth, and beyond
Explore how pregnancy, birth and postnatal support can be tailored to your needs, desires, and comfort
This will be a community-centred conversation where you can ask questions, build confidence, and imagine supportive care for future birth journeys.
🎨 Workshop 2: Decolonising Birth Through Art, Story, and Imagination
Birth has long been framed through narrow medical and patriarchal narratives but what if we could reimagine it?
This workshop invites you to:
Engage with birth through creative practices, such as collage
Unpack how colonial and binary systems shape our ideas about birth
Use art, storytelling, and shared imagination to envision birth on queer and trans terms
It’s a space to unlearn, play, and build new narratives together, whether or not you’re planning to give birth soon (or ever).
Who Should Come?
These workshops are for anyone who:
Is trans, non-binary, gender-diverse, or queer and wants to learn more about birth
Is thinking about birth in the future
Wants to expand their understanding of reproductive health
Is already on a birth journey (pregnant folks are warmly welcome too!)
No pregnancy, medical knowledge, or prior experience needed, just curiosity and willingness to learn.
Why This Matters
The mainstream world of antenatal and birth education too often assumes cisgender bodies and heteronormative paths. That means queer and trans people can be left without the language, tools, or community to connect with birth on their own terms. These workshops are part of a growing movement to reshape how queer bodies, stories, and futures are centred in conversations about pregnancy, birth, and care. This work draws on the values of community knowledge, creativity, and lived experience.
Birth is for everyone and it deserves to be queer-affirming, inclusive, and imaginative.
Where and When
📍 Hosted at Queercircle in Greenwich, London, a dedicated queer space for art, culture, and learning.
Address: Building 4, Design District, 3 Barton Yard, Soames Walk, London SE10 0BN
There’s the option to join online for those outside of London.
Workshop 1: Thinking About Birth? Exploring Doula Care for Trans People - 10th Feb 2026 7-9PM
Workshop 2: Decolonising Birth Through Art, Story, and Ritual - 24th Feb 2026 7-9PM
👉 Get your tickets and details on Eventbrite
Whether you’re local to London, visiting, or thinking ahead for future journeys, this is your chance to step into a safe, trans-affirming, and exploratory space around birth.
