Creator

Apollonia Gallegos is the creator of Mi Hita. She is a passionate education and women’s rights advocate. She holds a masters degree in education, is a trained doula, trained fertility awareness educator, and trained yoga instructor. She has a background in teaching, program design, experience curation, social justice, birth work, sex education, yoga, art, photography, girls education, and women’s health.

Through her own journey she recognized societies gap in knowledge and understanding about the female cycle, creating a lack of support and celebration for what makes women, women.

She created Mi Hita to close this gap, focusing on honoring the female cycle and embracing the strength of the XX chromosomes. Mi Hita has been designed to reshape mindsets, educate, guide, share knowledge, connect to resources, and ultimately create new traditions that honor & embrace the female journey.

A note on inclusivity

At Mi Hita we recognize that gender is socially constructed and sex assigned at birth is not indicative of how someone will later identify their gender in life. Mi Hita has intentionally been created to explore the female sex, its biological distinctions, and its cultural experience in an effort to uplift our society as a whole. For far too long our culture has dismissed and/or held down the uniqueness of the female journey through life, from the first period, to deciding how to navigate fertility, to perhaps becoming a mother, and though not our focus here, menopause.

We’ve chosen to use female pronouns and language because they most encapsulate the experience we are exploring, the intersection of female body biology and female cultural experience. We understand and value that not everyone who experiences a period, navigates fertility, or carries a pregnancy identifies as a woman. However, we hope that this work is inclusive of all those experiencing female body biology and/or female social experience, regardless of the body they were born into or how they identify.