the queer birth project
documentary film & multimedia installation, in production
director, Editor
The Queer Birth Project is a multimedia journey through a queer experience of conception, gestation, birth, and parenting. Through installation, film, performance, and community engagement, this project seeks to bring awareness to the challenges and possibilities of creatively and intentionally forging a path to building a family whilst navigating the cisheteronormative systems of the state that shape birth and caregiving. Specifically, the project uses my own journey of family building, as a queer, nonbinary, solo person as an intimate case study and catalyst for exploration. This throughline is supported by two additional artistic elements: 1) narrative contributions from other queer and trans parents, parents to be, and queer and ally birth workers, and 2) community rituals that invite audiences and local community members to engage in collective reflection on our bodies as portals for life, kin building as a necessary act of resistance, and nurturance as a practice of liberation.
Fiscally sponsored by the Utah Film Center
Recipient of the Assemblage Art Fund. With this grant, we are producing an exhibition of the project that will take place Fall 2026.
If you are interested in my personal written reflections on my family building journey, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Seed of Hope, here. Proceeds from subscriptions go toward the production of this project (with 10% donated to Fund Abortion Not War, a coalition of organizers and activists from the reproductive justice movement committed to liberation for all.
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Cinematographer
Justis Aderibigbe is a Black filmmaker from the commonwealth of Dominica. For five years he has worked as a Director of Photography and Chief Lighting Technician, across many narrative, documentary, and commercial projects with experience across shows like “Wardriver”, “The High School Musical” TV show, and “The Last of Us”. His passion in filmmaking is in the cross section of humanity and the environment, which can be seen in his projects, “From The Marrow”, “Mushroom God”, and “Void Formula”. Justis aims to tell stories that help people understand their own world better, and hopefully themselves.
Consulting Birth Worker
Beth Hardy has been a doula for 15 years and has grown Heart Tones Birth Services into one of the best known and most trusted doula businesses in Salt Lake City. Beth and her team of 15 birth + postpartum doulas specialize in serving the LGBTQ+ community, and also offer scholarships and sliding scale options to clients who want a doula but can't afford one. At Heart Tones Birth Services, we hold space for every birth + every body, providing unbiased, inclusive care to the full spectrum of families.
Cinematographer
Kelsie Moore is an Emmy-award winning Australian-American filmmaker based in Utah. In her process as a documentarian, Kelsie facilitates conditions of safety and openness to allow for trusted, authentic expression with those in front and behind the lens. She values leading with soft, collaborative intentions while emphasizing communal care, non-violent communication and spiritual approaches that are rooted in an awareness of body and land. She has been awarded numerous Public Media Journalists Association awards for her films documenting human interest stories in the American West and in 2022 she received a regional Emmy for her directorial debut with PBS, The Gerda That Remains. Working in both commercial and documentary spaces, Kelsie believes her strongest work comes from prioritizing vulnerability, connection and the space to dream.
Consulting PRODUCER
Kamee is a queer SWANA mama, interdisciplinary artist, storyteller, producer, community organizer, caregiver, waitress, and witch whose work summons ancestral reclamation, diasporic futurism, and justice. They’re a Pushcart nominated writer, a Lambda-awarded playwright, and an alumni resident at VONA, Banff Center for Arts, and DocX (Duke University). Documentaries they’ve worked on have been supported by Sundance, HotDocs, and Catapult. Kamee received the 2025 Creative Capital Award, published a children's book, and organized a multi-day arts program for a gathering of 4000 global-south feminist activists in Bangkok as part of their role as the arts programmer for AWID.