Dr Clarissa Borges is an artist and teacher. In 2019, she received her doctorate in Social History from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is currently professor of Visual Arts. Her artistic work explores themes relating to motherhood, childbirth, and sexuality, through photography and video installation. In this conversation, we discuss the context of constrained childbirth choices in Brazil, photography as a means of communicating pain, pleasure, intimacy, and intensity in childbirth, as a means for representing the new pressures on social reproduction within the home during Covid-19 lockdowns.