Meet Christian Toscano

We had the good fortune of connecting with Christian Toscano and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Christian, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
Starting my own midwifery practice was less of a business decision and more of a revolutionary act—a reclamation of care rooted in body literacy, equity, and radical sexual healthcare. My thought process began with a simple but powerful question: What if everyone had access to sexual healthcare that sought to heal the root cause of their issues and support their health goals?

As a queer, first-generation college graduate who has served as both caregiver and clinician, I saw too many of my LGBTQ+ and BIPOC clients navigating systems that silenced their voices, ignored their bodies, and over medicated their existence. I believe that everyone deserves better.

I built my practice as a place where queer families, single parents by choice, and those living outside binary systems could access affirming, inclusive reproductive care. My model centers body literacy—teaching clients to trust and understand their bodies—as a tool of liberation. I integrated herbal medicine and midwifery to offer holistic, preventive care that honors the whole person.

The business was born from love and resistance—resistance to systems that devalue our experiences and a deep love for my community. It’s not just about offering services; it’s about reshaping how we think about health, pleasure, parenting, and healing. My practice is a space where radical care is the foundation.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My practice is rooted in a commitment to providing holistic fertility care, insemination services, and culturally competent trauma informed gynecology with a specific focus on LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals and families. What sets my practice apart is its foundation in body literacy, inclusivity, and radical patient-centered care. I offer a space where queer people and single parents by choice can access affirming support through every step of their reproductive journey—from cycle tracking and IUI to trauma-informed pelvic care and herbal medicine.

Getting here wasn’t easy, I navigated systemic barriers to access midwifery training, student debt, and caregiving responsibilities. I bootstrapped the practice while managing grief and health issues, and I relied heavily on community support and creative solutions like sliding scales and my Equity Fund to keep care accessible.

I’m most proud of creating a clinic that reflects my values—where marginalized people are seen, heard, and cared for with dignity. Along the way, I’ve learned that healing work must be just as political as it is personal. Healthcare should empower, not pathologize.

I want the world to know that my practice is a movement towards the changes I want to see in society. It’s about reclaiming reproductive autonomy, honoring ancestral knowledge, and radically reimagining what inclusive care looks like.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
If my best friend was visiting for a week, I’d craft a nature-centered itinerary rooted in restoration and connection to the land. We’d begin by wildcrafting herbal medicine in the Angeles Mountains—gathering mugwort, yarrow, and elderflower while sitting in their healing properties and the ecosystems they thrive in. It’s a grounding and reverent way to connect with the earth and our plant medicines.

As the sun warms the canyon, we’d follow hidden trails to swim in seasonal waterfalls—those cold mountain pools are pure magic in the heat of summer. Evenings would be slow and nourishing: dinner at All Time or Bacetti, where every bite tastes like California sunshine. We’d make a ritual of stopping at Maru Coffee for their matcha latte with sweet cream, the perfect mid-day indulgence.

To close the week, we’d stretch and breathe deeply in a yin yoga class at Kinship Yoga—a soft landing after a week of wild beauty and embodied joy.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
My deepest shoutout goes to the Black grannie midwives of the United States—those powerful, wise women who carried generations of knowledge in their hands and hearts. They practiced midwifery rooted in African tradition, intuition, and community care, often serving rural and marginalized communities with little to no institutional support. In the face of racism, systemic neglect, and targeted efforts to erase their work, they stood firm, preserving a sacred lineage of birthwork and resistance.

These women were the foundation of reproductive care for countless families, and yet their contributions have too often been overlooked or actively erased. When the medical industry realized that birth could be commodified, it systematically pushed them out, replacing community wisdom with clinical detachment. But their legacy lives on in every culturally rooted, body-literate, patient-centered practice that continues today.

I carry their memory in my work. Their strength fuels my commitment to reproductive justice, and I am endlessly grateful.

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