Tecpaxochitl M. Gonzalez, MPH, IBCLC, PMH-C, Medi-Cal Doula (they/he) is a transmasculine and 2Spirit Purepecha-Nahuatl Indigenous birthworker and cultural bearer actively deconstructing western paradigms in public health and creating ancestral frameworks to provide perinatal health and childbirth education, chest/breastfeeding wisdom, birth companionship, perinatal mental health coaching and conscious parenting support to Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color families. In their work, Tecpaxochitl advances chest/breastfeeding as a sacred first-food, disruptor of intergenerational traumas and together with empowered and informed births a facilitator of lineage-healing and ecological and microbiome resilience.

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