Cross-disciplinary collaboration is an effort to illuminate the burdens of racism during birth. LeConté, Cheyenne Varner, and I have collaborated to share a birth story of obstetric racism, accompanied by illustrations and poetry, in order to recover the pieces of Black women’s lives lost as a result of obstetric racism. LeConté, Cheyenne, and I have collectively moved one Black woman’s experience of her medical encounter from the margin to the center. This collaboration is an effort in disobedience against the “typical” academic form. Cheyenne VannerLeConté is a 40-year-old Black professional who had IVF and developed a birth support team that included two doulas, one of whom was me. The nurse midwives at the hospital where LeConté planned to give birth were Black and possessed the most politically informed analysis of Black women’s birthing experiences. LeConté and her husband engaged in radical caring projects, such as creating a vision board, writing letters to their baby, and gifting each other aromatherapy scents. When LeConté went for a prenatal check-up, her blood pressure reading was 147/81, leading to a diagnosis of severe preeclampsia. The next day, her OB-GYN team instructed her to go to the hospital for admission and induce labor. LeConté arrived at the hospital with her support team, including her husband, mother, and two doulas. Her doctors were committed to her having a vaginal birth and monitored her blood pressure and liver enzymes. Over two days, LeConté’s labor was induced with a fetal monitor and a supportive team of nurse midwives. However, there were some issues along the way, such as a nurse who was unable to find a vein, a nurse who lost one of the vials of blood, and an anesthesiologist who administered too much epidural. LeConté felt invisible and disrespected, and the quality improvement person on duty wanted her to have a C-section.