One large brown hand holding a baby brown hand.

The Courage in Care: Community Doulas and the Joyful Revolution of Birth

Project Description
A public exhibition co-designed with Black and Brown doulas in New Jersey. It reveals the intimate and often invisible work doulas do and celebrates their central role in reproductive justice. We'll explore what care workers want to express about their work, what resilience and joy looks like in the face of the maternal health crisis and Black maternal health crisis in the United States. The exhibition itself includes multiple "zones" including a collective wall for grief, photojournalism, oral histories, a custom fabricated community work space, and spatial installations that make visible the care that doulas provide to birthing families and their wider community.
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Long brown hair woman reaches to place a card on a poster board.
A brown haired woman stands in front of a wall of photos.
A short cropped hair woman stares at an altar.

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