Syrus Marcus Ware, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, was “immediately struck” by an image shared several days ago by his cousin in California.

The illustration of a pregnant Black woman, showing a Black fetus inside her belly, was created by Nigerian medical student and Illustrator Chidiebere Ibe.

“I realized that I had never seen anything like it,” Ware told CBC Hamilton. 

Ware — a trans man who carried his now-10-year-old daughter Amélie — said he has “read countless pregnancy books, including very progressive ones,” but had never seen that kind of representation, aside from a drawing of his own he once made.

“I had literally never