Womb Work Is World Building: What Beyoncé’s Renaissance Trilogy Teaches Us About Black Birth and Doula Magic

When I think about Black birth work, the messy, mystical, ancestral, divine labor of bringing forth life, I think of Beyoncé. How cliche right? And before you ask, yes, yes, I am a part of the Bey-hive.

Not just because she is a mother.

Not just because she’s from the South, Texas to be exact.

But because Beyoncé’s body of work across Black Is King, Renaissance, and now Cowboy Carter is a spiritual archive of Black freedom, reclamation, and rebirth. It’s doula work in sonic form. It’s womb work as world-building.

As a full-spectrum doula and a Black woman deeply rooted in ancestral healing, I see these albums not just as art but as blueprints. And when Black mamas and birthing folks step into my care, they’re not just preparing to birth babies. They’re ushering in new worlds.

Let me explain a bit more.

Black Is King: The Ancestral Portal

Black Is King is not just a visual album. It is a reclamation of lineage. It reminds us that we are not the beginning or the end but that we are the bridge. In doula work, I sit at that bridge every day. I remind Black birthing folks that their bodies are holy ground, that their pain and power did not begin with them.

In Black Is King, Beyoncé sings:
"Find your way back, big big world but you got it baby."

This is the soul of birthwork. To help someone “find their way back” to themselves, to their ancestors, to the intuitive wisdom their body already carries. In our Westernized system, birth is often stripped of spirit. But my work as a doula is to remember. To remind. To re-anchor the sacred.

Renaissance: Pleasure, Play & Liberation

Renaissance is a love letter to queer Black joy, sweat, sound, and soul. And what does that have to do with birth?

Everything.

Because we deserve to feel good in our bodies. Because the pleasure principle is not separate from our reproductive power. Because Black birthing folks deserve care that honors their whole selves and not just their cervix.

In Virgo’s Groove, Beyoncé moans:
"I love it when you hold me, hold me, hold me..."

When I support a birth, postpartum, or tender transitions client, I think of what it means to be held. Not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually. My care is soft, strong, affirming. I play music. I light candles. I crack jokes. I will cry with you. I remind you that your joy and your sensuality matter even in transition and loss.

Renaissance is the soundtrack of embodied liberation. My work echoes that.

Cowboy Carter: Reclaiming the Frontier

With Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé kicks down the doors of a genre that was never truly closed to us. We were just red-lined out of it. She steps into country music as a disruptor, a lineage bearer, and a truth teller.

That’s doula work too.

Birth workers like me are reclaiming traditions that white supremacy tried to erase: granny midwives, root work, birth songs, postpartum sealing, herbal medicine. We are stepping back onto land we were told was no longer ours and planting seeds for new life.

In Sweet Honey Buckin’, Beyoncé hollers:
"You don't like it, but you gon' respect this country-ass Black girl."

That’s the energy I carry into hospitals, homes, clinics, and ceremonies. Respect our bodies. Respect our traditions. Respect the way we birth, bleed, and bloom.

Birthing Black Futures

These three albums together form a trinity (and not the food kind we so fondly love in our Southern soul food) - past (Black Is King), present (Renaissance), and future (Cowboy Carter). That’s exactly the timeline I walk with every client I serve.

I honor the ancestors.

I hold space for the present.

I protect the future.

So, when I say being a doula is sacred, I mean it with my whole chest. We are not just catching babies. We are catching dreams, holding grief, protecting legacies, cultivating Black joy and power, one womb at a time.

To my fellow birth workers, Beyoncé fans, and divine vessels reading this, may we always remember:

We were never meant to do this alone.
We were never meant to forget.
We are the renaissance.
We are the legacy.
We are the kingdom.

And we are the ones our ancestors midwifed into being.

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