Reviews & Quotes | Give Light

LSU School of Medicine | Pamela Wiseman, MD, LSU Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine
"The Give Light screening at LSU School of Medicine has brought the departments of Family Medicine and Nurse-Midwifery Program together to address issues on reproductive healthcare."

Dr. Rebecca Tuuri, Interim Associate Dean of the Honors College, Co-director, Center for the Study of the Gulf South, Associate Professor of History
"Give Light: Stories from Indigenous Midwives weaves together the history and experiences of past and present midwives from around the world. After viewing Give Light on the University of Southern Mississippi campus on November 2, 2023, our students gained a completely new perspective about the variety of ways that women give birth. Perhaps most importantly, they viewed how midwives globally empower women, both mothers and midwives, to trust in their own skills and expertise, both natural and learned, to bring life into the world. This was a powerful film that helped students see that our hyper-medicalized way of giving birth in the United States, which so often fails poor and minority women, is not the only or even the best way for mothers to give birth. This film also introduces new solutions to dealing with our current maternal and infant mortality crisis nationally and provides an excellent entre to a larger discussion about how to best help women, especially Black mothers in Mississippi, in the future."

Ayodele Foster-McCray, Anthropologist
“Give Light takes indigenous midwife epistemologies seriously as empirical Quo, and does so with beauty, levity, and humor. It is so educational for anyone with a stake in reproduction in the 21st century, which is to say, everyone.”

University of New Orleans | Tony Campbell, Assistant Professor
"The Give Light film is a true education Giving female students the information that conventional wisdom misses. Without it many are misinformed and scared of what can be a very sacred and natural process."