Illustration of Black fetus has Canadian parents, educators calling for diversity in medical resources

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