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And that's on Harriet and Zora
Sometimes the places that should be safe, hurt us into our blooming
Jul 15, 2024 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Quiet Alignment: Lessons from Growing a Wild Garden as a 4th Generation Midwife
Daughter of Indigo and Sweetgrass No. 2
Jul 18, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Daughter of Indigo and Sweetgrass No. 1
Our aunts are our mothers, too.
Jun 5, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
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When Spirit Meets the Bones
May 19, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Daughter of Indigo and Sweetgrass No. 1
Jun 5, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Oil Lamps in Traditional Midwifery
Jan 7, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Midwifing Myself
Feb 7, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Quiet Alignment: Lessons from Growing a Wild Garden as a 4th Generation Midwife
Jul 18, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Tongue Untied: Finding My Divinity Through Blood, Food, and Words
Dec 17, 2024 • Joyell Arvella, JD
When Spirit Meets the Bones
A loss is not a loss. It's freedom.
May 19, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Midwifing Myself
Cracked open with plant medicine
Feb 7, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Sacerdotal Beings: Our Midwives Knew the Moon
100+ births; returning to the moon
Jan 16, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Oil Lamps in Traditional Midwifery
Ancestral lights unto my path
Jan 7, 2025 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Seven by Seven: The First Rites of Passage as Signs of Remembering
Afro-spiritual midwifery and black eyed peas
Dec 31, 2024 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Tongue Untied: Finding My Divinity Through Blood, Food, and Words
What if my people perish for their lack of knowledge of self
Dec 17, 2024 • Joyell Arvella, JD
Recognizing my Baba as a bee
Prompts for interrogation as integration from a Pittsburgh "freedom" garden
Oct 24, 2024 • Joyell Arvella, JD
bloodwater
bloodwater
a womb sanctum by the river. guided letters from a traditional midwife about integrating ancestral wisdom, foodways, and rematriation.
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