Build Black: Help Fund The 2026 Motherhood Healing Festival

These days it feels like motherhood is treated as a quiet burden rather than a bold reclamation, I’m reminded every day: being a Black mother in America is not just a role, it’s a revolution.

Between school drop-offs and therapy sessions, late nights after step practices and early mornings prepping meals, I know: this is the hardest hood I’ve ever been in. But it’s also full of power, purpose and possibility.

That’s why I’m thrilled to spotlight the campaign led by Earthside With Evonna Birth Services: The 2026 Motherhood Healing Festival! This is more than a fundraiser—it’s the beginning of a movement. The funds raised will support the 2nd annual Motherhood Healing Festival at Sanoah Springs in Spalding County, Georgia on Sunday, April 12, 2026—during Black Maternal Health Week.

Why this matters:

• Black mothers face disproportionate challenges in maternal health, wellness access, and community support.

• This festival is intentionally designed to center the joy, healing, health, pleasure and sovereignty of women and mothers—especially Black women and mothers who too often labor silently.

• It’s an act of resistance and self-preservation. To gather, uplift, heal, celebrate—that is radical.

Being the mom of two means I live in the intersection of love, advocacy, fatigue and triumph every day. I know what it means to risk my life bringing them into the world and what it means to juggle the everyday of motherhood while wanting so many more for my children, for myself, and for the Black community.

And here’s what I’ve learned: we cannot do it alone. The strongest communities are built when we lean on each other. When we raise each other up. When we invest in each other’s healing. That’s why this festival speaks to me, deeply. Because it offers a place where Black mothers don’t just survive they thrive.

How you can help:

• Visit the funding site to donate and learn more.

• Share this message with someone you know who is a Black mother, or who supports Black mothers—tag a sister, an auntie, a friend.

• Consider giving what you can: every dollar sends the message that Black mothers matter; our healing matters; our joy matters.

• If you’re able, volunteer  donate supplies or spread the word locally in Atlanta-area communities (or with your networks). The location is Georgia (Sanoah Springs, Spalding County) but the ripple effects will be national. 

Because baby—this is the hardest hood I have ever been in. But it’s also the sweetest.  It’s the hood where I cradle my child’s hand on the playground, where I cheer at her step practice even when I’m bone-tired, where I finally give myself permission to ask for help and to say: I matter.

And this is the hood where we say to Black mothers: You matter. Your healing matters. Your celebration matters.

Let’s be about the business of community. Let’s invest in each other’s wellness. Let’s send the message that the hardest hood can also be the most beautiful one—because we transform it together.