Honouring Lesbian Visibility Week 2025: Fertility, Birth, and Family Justice

This Lesbian Visibility Week, I created a series of Instagram posts to celebrate, honour, and make visible the diverse and powerful experiences of lesbian parenthood, fertility journeys, and birth. As a non-binary lesbian doula supporting lesbian clients in London, this work is deeply personal — and political. Here’s a roundup of what I shared:

1. Holding Space for Every Lesbian Journey

In my first post, I reflected on the many identities and experiences that deserve visibility and honour within our community.
This week and always, I’m holding space for:

• Trans lesbians

• Non-binary lesbians

• Black lesbians

• Brown lesbians

• Disabled lesbians

• Lesbian mothers

• Lesbian parents

• Lesbian aunties

• Lesbians navigating infertility

• Lesbians experiencing reproductive loss

Our journeys into parenthood, through loss, through joy — are all sacred, valid, and deserving of deep, affirming support.

2. Fertility Justice is Lesbian Visibility

Fertility justice is a lesbian issue.
During Lesbian Visibility Week, I raised awareness of the Fertility Justice Campaign, which calls for fair and equal access to fertility information, services, and legal protections for LGBTQIA+ people.
Fertility justice means:

• Access to NHS-funded fertility care without having to prove infertility through cisheteronormative hoops

• Respectful, informed support from healthcare professionals who understand queer family-building

• Legal recognition for all kinds of lesbian families — partnered, solo, co-parenting, poly, chosen

• Trauma-informed care for those navigating reproductive loss, IVF burnout, or family rejection

3. Lesbian Birth is Sacred

I shared an illustration honouring the beauty of lesbian love during birth.

I feel so privileged to see the unconditional - I love you with my whole heart and the universe - love that lesbians pour into their partners in the birth space. Sometimes I see this in the way they hold each other as one person roars through a surge. I see this in the glance of 'fuck no' they give each other letting the birth partner know it's time to advocate. I see this in the way they make decisions out of love for themselves, each other, their unique journey and their babies.

4. The Lesbian Flag x Doula Support

Finally, shared a special carousel exploring the colours of the lesbian flag — and how each one mirrors a part of the pregnancy, birth, and parenting journey:

• Dark Orange: Honouring gender non-conformity in birth spaces.

• Orange: Uplifting independence and autonomy in lesbian parenthood.

• Light Orange: Recognising that birth can mean both creating a new family and grieving the loss of unaccepting family ties.

• White: Affirming every unique relationship to womanhood, beyond binaries.

• Pink: Offering serenity, calm, and grounded care in birth and postpartum.

• Dusty Pink: Centring love — chosen love, queer love, family love.

• Dark Rose: Celebrating the diverse, powerful expressions of femininity.

Through each stage, I stand with you: offering care that is as expansive and multifaceted as our community itself.