Call us aunties, says Ottawa-based collective of Indigenous doulas – CBC

Aunties on the Road travels to Indigenous youth to provide reproductive and sexual health counselling

Dec 02, 2018

Since Chrystal Desilets started calling herself a doula, she’s spent more time explaining what a doula is than anything else.

That’s why she and others at Aunties on the Road, an Ottawa-based collective of Indigenous full-spectrum doulas, are reclaiming and decolonizing their work by referring to themselves as aunties.

“By claiming aunties, we’re giving people permission to feel pride in being caregivers again,” said Desilets, an Algonquin from the Pikwakanagan First Nation.

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