These Waters Run Deep -- Indiegogo

I have been invited to join Ayiti Resurrects 2^nd delegation to Haiti. Ayiti Resurrect is a team of visionary artists, community builders, mental health specialists, and holistic healers with bloodlines in Haiti and the African Diaspora, working in collaboration with local Haitian organizations, to help address the psychological and spiritual healing of the survivors of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. I will be facilitating an art therapy workshop featuring my skill of body casting to work with participants on creating and expressing themselves via this medium. This is a new chapter for These Waters Run Deep, my multimedia project and doula service, as I embark on a new leg of my journey to use my art to promote healing.

These Waters Run Deep will then go on to give birth to Dar Luz, a video blog in which I will be collecting the birth stories of womyn of color intergenerationally. "Dar Luz" in Spanish means to "give light"; it is the term used for giving birth. As a womyn of Dominican descent, it is vitally important that I capture the stories of womyn that speak Spanish. It is my honor to return back to the Dominican Republic after 15 years to sit with the elder of my living elders my maternal grandmother and capture her story in our homeland. In the time spent in D.R, I will collect the stories of as many womyn as I can interview. This will be the first of many trips to give womyn of color across the globe their voice to speak as the mothers and nurturers of this world.

I am asking for assistance from my community to raise $5,000. The money raised in this effort will be used to fund my travels to and within Haiti and the Dominican Republic, healing supplies, art supplies, video recording equipment, food and lodging. Join me in sharing the stories of our womyn and promoting their healing!

About me:

My name is Carmen Mojica. I am an Afro-Dominican womyn born, raised and living in the Bronx. I am a writer, teaching artist and certified birth doula. I graduated with a bachelors degree in Black Studies and Television/Radio Productions. In October 2009, I completed and self-published her literary work called Hija De Mi Madre (My Mothers Daughter), which is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that not only explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint but also shares my life as a living example. In June 2010, I began training to become a birth doula, a trained and experienced professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and just after birth. I received my certification in August 2011 and I will be returning to school next year to start my midwifery studies.

In 2011, I launched the multimedia project and doula practice, These Waters Run Deep. The heart of this project is to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for womyn of color, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States. The state of maternal and infant health in our present day American society is heartbreaking. Women of color have the highest rate of maternal deaths, with a high infant mortality rate, poor infant and maternal health postpartum and lack of resources before during and after that would contribute to making more informed decisions on birth, nutrition and beyond.

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$10 Rain People

The audio track and transcript of my poem, "Heal the Womyn."
$20 Streams of Love

The audio tracks and transcripts of my poems, "Heal the Womyn" & "For The Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn."
$40 Still Lakes

The audio tracks and transcripts of my poems, "Heal the Womyn", "For The Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn" & "For the Womyn Who Refuses to Be Broken In", and a signed copy of my first book, "Hija De Mi Madre"
$100 Rapid Rivers

The audio tracks and transcripts of my poems, "Heal the Womyn", "For The Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn" & "For the Womyn Who Refuses to Be Broken In", a signed copies of my books, "Hija De Mi Madre" and "Odas De La Mujer De Miel."
$500 Plentiful Waterfalls

The audio tracks and transcripts of my poems, "Heal the Womyn", "For The Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn" & "For the Womyn Who Refuses to Be Broken In", a signed copies of my books, "Hija De Mi Madre" and "Odas De La Mujer De Miel" and a limited edition copy of my collection of poetry, "Imagine This Womyn."
$1,000 Ocean Deep

The audio tracks and transcripts of my poems, "Heal the Womyn", "For The Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn" & "For the Womyn Who Refuses to Be Broken In", a signed copies of my books, "Hija De Mi Madre" and "Odas De La Mujer De Miel", a limited edition copy of my collection of poetry, "Imagine This Womyn" and a mask-making art therapy session with me.