Solidarity Actions

We are committed to ensuring that no employee, applicant of the company, nor user of our services will be discriminated against based on sex, race, nationality, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, or genetic information.

Our commitments to upholding equality both in the workplace and through our work rest on the following four pillars: listening, learning, helping, and growing. These four pillars are adapted to the following groups whose plights we continuously seek to understand and amplify through accessibility, choice, and open dialogue.

 

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)

  • Listening: We are continuously listening to and encouraging open discussions about the BIPOC experience, especially when it comes to gynecological healthcare. If you think there are ways we can improve, please tell us. We want to know what you think and how you feel.

  • Learning: We will prioritize reading and learning from research about the BIPOC gynecological healthcare experience. Once we receive funding, we are committed to contributing to this type of research through surveying, focus groups, and report writing.

  • Growing: Although we are a global team predominantly made up of women, we still have a lot of work to do to ensure that our teams include more BIPOC. We are committed to diversifying our intern teams, with a focus on programming, AI, research, and communications. When we are able to grow our team, we are committed to hiring BIPOC to our permanent team.

  • Helping: There is no doubt that Black people receive inadequate reproductive and gynecological care at exponentially higher rates compared to all other races - which has led to too many preventable deaths. We want to help close this gap by ensuring that our app is especially mindful of the Black care experience. We want to ensure that Black people's pelvic pain is communicated with respectably and that their gynecological concerns are taken seriously.

 

LGBTQIA+

  • Listening: We are continuously seeking to understand the LGBTQIA+ healthcare experience, especially when it comes to gynecology and reproductive care. We are guilty of practicing a heteronormative approach to helping people manage endometriosis, and we want to change this. If you see avenues where we need to improve, please tell us. We want to hear what you think and how you feel so we can better serve your needs.

  • Learning: We recognize that not all women menstruate, and not all people who menstruate identify as women. Research into the different aspects of these experiences is not prioritized; however, is necessary to create a better-tailored care experience for the LGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to contributing to this type of research through surveying, feedback sessions, focus groups, and report writing once we receive funding.

  • Growing: We are a global team with members from the LGBTQIA+ community, but we need to create a more inclusive environment for trans and gender non-conforming uterus carriers (past and present). We are committed to diversifying our intern teams, with a focus on programming, AI, research, and communications. When we are able to grow our team, we are committed to hiring more trans and gender non-conforming uterus carriers to our permanent team.

  • Helping: Ultimately, we want to help remove the barriers to adequate healthcare for all past and present uterus carriers; however, we recognize that these barriers are more impenetrable for the LGBTQIA+ community. We want to demolish these barriers by ensuring that our app is especially mindful of the trans and gender-nonconforming care experience. We want to create features within our app to ensure that trans and gender-nonconforming uterus carriers’ pelvic pain is communicated with respectably and that their gynecological care needs are taken seriously.

 

Disabled and Chronically Ill

  • Listening: We aim to understand and respect the voices and experiences of the disabled and chronically ill communities with our app and our professional environment. We try to maintain a flexible and accessible environment, but we believe that there is always room for improvement. If you have feedback on what we can do to improve, please tell us. We want to know what you think and how you feel so we can better serve your needs.

  • Learning: We will continue analyzing research and lived experiences about the disabled and chronically ill comorbid health experience. Once we receive funding, we are committed to expanding our research and observations of lived experiences through surveying, focus groups, and report writing.

  • Growing: We are a global team that aims to create a mindful working environment for the disabled and chronically ill. We are committed to diversifying our intern teams, with a focus on programming, research, and communications. We want to continue working with this community as we grow; therefore, we are committed to hiring more disabled and chronically ill people to our permanent team.

  • Helping: We want to help solve the lack of visibility, respect, and understanding that the disabled and chronically ill communities face in healthcare settings and society. We want to do this by continuing to provide flexible, accessible, and safe working environments for our staff. We also want to continue to develop solutions that accommodate the full range of these communities' needs.