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Presented By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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Black Birth Joy photography exhibit

This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic. This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic.
This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic.
Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection, courage, tenderness, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women’s anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system.

Black Birth Joy was born from Lashae’s belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers, babies, partners, families, and birthworkers.

The exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae, a doula and birth/newborn photographer.

The Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 – Friday, January 15, 2027
Lane Hall Exhibit Space, 204 S State St., Ann Arbor, MI
Open M–F, 9AM–5PM
This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic. This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic.
This image shows a pregnant woman wearing glasses and a blue hospital gown. She is smiling at her partner, who is sitting next to her on a large medicine ball and reading from a book titled The Labor Progress Handbook. Text is imposed on the image that says "Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae." The colors in the photo are warm and the feeling in the photo seems loving and optimistic.

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