Kamusta! Ako si Anna Balagtas (she/her) and I'm a Queer + Pinay femme radical birthworker, educator, facilitator, energy worker, and pleasure advocate. I'm the founder of Pocket Doula and I support emerging birthworkers in radicalizing their practice through heart-centered mentorships, facilitations, and community organizing. My practice is housed under the decolonization of birthwork and transformative queer care. My deepest joys come from witnessing our communities thrive through community care, mutual aid, and abolition work.

I support birthing folks and families in fertility, birth, postpartum, abortion, miscarriage, and loss. I believe in providing gender affirming and trauma informed care for all folks in their reproductive journeys.

I take care in understanding there is anti-racism work to be upheld in all facets of reproductive care and am committed to learning how to hold accountable the many systems of oppression that continue to harm marginalized folks - especially queer, trans, and gender non-conforming BIPGM (Black, Indigenous, People of the Global Majority) folks. My goal is to make sure any space we share together is radical, inclusive, and affirming.