Infertility isn’t one-size-fits-all. Meet Oshun Griot.

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It’s been a minute. But since it’s National Infertility Awareness Week and Earth Day, it it felt like the perfect time to share something close to my heart:

The Oshun Griot App launches this week — a digital space for people of color navigating infertility.

This isn’t just another fertility app. It’s built for those of us who’ve been left out of the infertility conversation. It doesn’t ask you to translate your pain or explain your culture.

Oshun Griot was built for us — with us — from the ground up.

This platform was born from deep frustration — years of IVF, endometriosis, fibroids, and a medical system that often didn’t see me. It began after the birth of my second baby, when I realized that even after all the treatments, surgeries, and difficult pregnancies, I wasn’t fully healed.

That truth hit me hard when someone casually told me I was “different” for not having kids the “natural way.” I’m proud of how my babies got here. But in that moment, after all the books, apps, and support groups, I still felt the sting of shame. The stigma. And I didn’t have anywhere to process it all.

That’s why I started building Oshun Griot — because I didn’t see myself in spaces like this. Spaces where you could tell the full story — not just the sanitized, “acceptable” version. Spaces that reflect the complexity of what it means to be a person of color going through infertility — the medical, the emotional, the cultural, the spiritual. Spaces that aren’t just about tips or timelines, but about truth.

So… what is Oshun Griot?

A digital platform for people of color navigating infertility — wherever you are on your path.

Inside the app, you’ll find:

📚 Articles

• From medical explanations to cultural analysis

• Personal stories that reflect the real range of what we go through

• Expert Q&As with OB-GYNs, doulas, mental health professionals, and more

🧘🏾‍♀️ Guided practices

• Meditations and breathing for stress, anxiety, and emotional release

• Yoga videos made specifically for our community’s fertility and healing journeys

💬 Community and reflection

• A storytelling space to read and share lived experiences

🧾 Practical tools

• Downloadable PDFs: questions to ask your doctor, fertility budget planners, and more

• Checklists for culturally competent care

• Daily affirmations for centering and resilience

💡 Resources

• A growing directory of providers, support groups, and financial help

• News, policy updates, and your rights around reproductive justice

Why $7.99/month?

While this newsletter will remain free, the Oshun Griot app will be $7.99/month after a free three-day trial.

Why?

Because building something ad-free, intentional, and culturally grounded takes resources. Because we didn’t want to sell your data or throw random ads at you — we wanted to serve you.

I hope you’ll subscribe — or share this with someone you know who’s struggling with fertility and doesn’t feel seen in the “mainstream” options.

Oshun Griot didn’t come from nowhere.
It came from pain, but it’s rooted in joy.

Joy in knowing your story is valid.
Joy in building the life or family you want — not the one someone else defines for you.
Joy that sits beside grief, not instead of it.

We’re launching Oshun Griot at a time when it feels like everything is being challenged — reproductive rights, DEI, culturally competent care. But we’re not running away from our culture, we’re leaning into it. Projects like this don’t always get funded, don’t always get championed, but we’re doing it anyway. Because our stories and bodies matter.

Last week, I was with Black doulas in Florida during Black Maternal Health Week, working on a documentary about how climate change is impacting fertility. (Yes — climate and fertility are connected in real ways people still don’t talk about enough.)

Watching people fight for birth equity and protection in real time reminded me why this app matters — and how we have to protect our bodies, our wombs, our choices, and the lives we want to build, on our own terms.

Oshun Griot launches later this week on iOS and Google Play.
Please sign up here to get our launch link.

Until then: Follow us on all the socials: TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Threads.

Thank you for believing in what we’re building.

And if you want a glimpse of the story we’re telling around infertility and climate change, take a peek at a (very very) early version of a story from my upcoming documentary, Infertile Ground.

—Reniqua