Research on the harm nobody else is measuring.

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Who we are

Not an institution. A physician you can ask.

Most research this important sits behind a university, an agency or a paywall. You can read it, but you can't ask it anything.

The Labora Collective is led by Dr. Yamicia Connor, a practicing OB/GYN with an MD, PhD and MPH. You can reach her. Message her in the community or directly, ask her live (she goes live all the time), or DM her on social media. Members' questions shape what we research next.

“I'm an open book, so you can ask.” — Dr. Yamicia Connor

A medical home

Research you fund

A real community

What makes it different

Two kinds of evidence. One standard.

The data the government collects is large, consistent, and blind to what happens in communities. What happens in communities is documented in news reports, local records and people's own accounts, and it is easy to dismiss because nobody standardizes it.

We hold both to the same standard. Every fact is linked to the exact sentence it came from, with a screenshot of the source, checked by machine and by a physician. Then it sits beside 327 public datasets, 80 million rows, so a local story and a national number can be read together.

296,463facts

2,916sources

327datasets

And when you look closely, you find what the official story leaves out:

The FBI quietly changed its hate crime numbers. In nineteen days, every figure that changed went down. None went up. Bias-motivated killings in 2021 fell from 27 to 18, a third erased, with no notice given.
Texas stopped counting. It is the only large state not taking part in the federal maternal mortality review. CDC's own records showed it in August and again in September.
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled, from about 18 a year in the 2010s to 34 a year since 2020. That same year, the government stopped recording the information that would show why.

What we've built

A medical home, and the research behind it.

Your medical home

Trial Finder — studies recruiting near you, in plain words.
LC Intelligence — what changed in guidelines, FDA decisions and trials.
From Crisis to Care — a reproductive rights workbook and action plan.
Well Woman — a 19-part guide with your own scorecard.

For clinicians and birth workers

Doula Field Guide — 30 modules of clinical perinatal education.
Yemaya — the network for clinicians, doulas, journalists and advocates.

Research you fund

The Record — every member of Congress, graded on how they voted on women and families.
The Architecture of Harm — a 16-chapter investigation into women's and children's health.
The County Map — obstetricians, birth risk and the mortality gap, county by county.
How We Compare — the US against 14 wealthy countries on having a baby.
Healthy Babies — newborn intensive care admissions of healthy full-term babies, state by state.

Freedom from the platforms

We build our own tools, so no platform can bury this work.

Women's health gets suppressed: throttled, demonetized, taken down. So the same team that does the research builds the tools to publish it without asking permission.

The Codex — a publishing home for creators: your own site and newsletter, on your own domain, instead of renting space on Substack or Facebook. We're inviting our first creators now.

Newsroom Studio — our own studio for going live, built into The Codex, so creators can go live without depending on any one platform.

Community-sponsored research

Now funding: our first five research projects.

You pick a project and pay toward it. When it reaches its goal, we do the research and publish what we find, with every source attached. If it doesn't reach its goal, we either go ahead anyway, with me covering the difference, or you choose a full refund or moving your money to another project.

The Coverage Rules Tracker — where the rules for your insurance are written down, for every state. Goal $10,000 by November 26, 2026. Chip in
They Called It Suicide — deaths ruled suicide, or identities erased, when families say otherwise. Goal $10,000 by December 31, 2026. Chip in
The Record — how each member of Congress voted on women and families, and who funds them. Goal $10,000 by January 31, 2027. Chip in
Sexual assault — what happens after a woman reports, in one place. Goal $15,000 by March 31, 2027. Chip in
AI research — how AI fails in the hands of the people responsible for human life. This work goes ahead either way. How much we can take on, and how fast, depends on funding. We're a small team. Goal $15,000 by March 31, 2027. Chip in

Read about all five projects

This is just the beginning

A team small enough to fit around a kitchen table.

Everything on this page was built by a team small enough to fit around a kitchen table. I'm a physician. I don't draw a salary from this.

Running it costs about $4,000 a month. I've been paying that out of pocket, because this work needed to exist.

To do things differently, you actually have to do things differently. If we built this the way everyone else builds, why would we expect a different outcome? We want a different outcome, so we are building differently, and part of building differently is building with people.

So I'm opening it up. This research can only get as good as the community that supports it. When you join, you fund the work, you choose what we study next, and you can ask me questions directly. You're not buying a subscription. You're joining the team.

— Dr. Yamicia Connor

Membership

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Diosa Circle

For everyone

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The Dispatch, our newsletter
Trial Finder and our public tools
Join Dr. Connor's lives
Follow the research as it happens

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Diosa Essentials

Patients · Doulas · Students

$30 $15 /mo

Or $150 / year · Cancel anytime

Everything in Diosa Circle
All three journals and the full archive
The clinical library and patient tools
The full community
Message Dr. Connor directly in the community
Choose the research you back, and add a contribution if you like

Subscribe — $15 / month Pay annually — $150 / year

Diosa Insiders

Providers · Researchers · Institutions

$55 /mo

Or $550 / year

Everything in Essentials
Read access to our research, like The Record
Intelligence and special reports
Professional resources and licensing rights
Packs, playbooks and Viva Voce
$11 of every month goes to the research you choose

Subscribe — $55 / month Pay annually — $550 / year

Labora Luminaries

Research sponsors · Leadership circle

$1,500 /yr

Or $150 / month

Everything in Insiders
$1,000 of your year goes to the research you choose
A vote and a voice in what we take on next
A strategy session with Dr. Connor twice a year
A research note every 60 days: what we found, where the money went
Exclusive Luminary content
An invitation to the Luminary Summit
Named as a founding sponsor, if you want

Join — $1,500 / year Or $150 / month

Our promise. Research money goes to the project you choose. If it doesn't reach its goal, we either go ahead anyway, with me covering the difference, or you choose a full refund or moving your money to another project. No pharma sponsors. No hospital system editorial control.