Community • Pleasure • Liberation
Birth is more than a medical event. It is an embodied, relational, communal experience.
Our birth work centers pleasure, informed consent, bodily autonomy, ancestral wisdom, and the belief that families deserve to feel powerful throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Meet Calandra
Community Birth Assistant • Student Midwife
Calandra approaches birth work with a deep commitment to pleasure-centered, community-rooted care. As a community birth assistant and student midwife, she centers the radical freedom of Black families, bridging ancestral wisdom with embodied praxis to ensure every birth is a powerful, relational experience.
Services & Offerings
Rooted in Pleasure • Liberation • Ancestral Wisdom
Support during active labor and birth including comfort measures, positioning, movement, breathwork, advocacy, and creating a space that honors your birth preferences.
Labor & Birth Support — $250
Includes four prenatal visits plus labor & birth support. We’ll build trust, explore your desires and concerns, and create an intentional plan for your birth.
Prenatal & Birth Support — $500
Support throughout pregnancy and birth plus two postpartum visits.
Full Perinatal Support — $750
If you’re interested in a home birth, ask me about connecting you to my midwife. If you choose her, I will WAIVE MY FEES COMPLETELY so I can attend your birth as a part of my training & continue growing in this sacred work.
Homebirth Option — No Fee
Pricing & Mutual Exchange
We utilize a sliding scale and mutual exchange values to ensure our care is accessible while sustaining our collective work. This pricing philosophy reflects our commitment to economic justice and communal support.
Redistribution Tier
For those with financial abundance who wish to directly subsidize care for others in the community.
Sustainability Tier
Standard fee that covers the costs of services and supports the practitioners' livelihood.
Mutual Exchange Tier
Sliding scale and bartering options for families with limited financial resources, rooted in community care traditions.
Pleasure as Praxis
We believe that liberation is not a distant goal but a daily practice. By centering pleasure as a praxis, we create a space where Black women and femmes can be fully seen, fully embodied, and fully free. This is the soul of The Pleasure Commons—a community hub dedicated to the radical freedom of our bodies and our spirits.
Ways to Get Involved
Join us in building a space where liberation is a collective practice and pleasure is a daily act of resistance.
Connect with Us
Clinton Ave. Community Hub
Jackson, Mississippi
hello@pleasurecommons.org