These are my hours
A full sensory immersion, These Are My Hours reveals one woman's physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual transformation through giving birth. It is the first documentary filmed entirely during the course of one woman's labor, told from her perspective.
Producer Carey Glenn and birth mother, Emily Graham, will be on campus for the screening as well as for accompanying events that dive deeper into storytelling and the science of birth.
"These Are My Hours"
Tue, March 19 @ 6pm - Gannett Auditorium
Film Screening + Panel Discussion
Panelists: Producer Carey Glenn, birth mother Emily Graham, Laila Morgan '18 (doula and curator of the exhibit "Birthing Bodies"), Katie Hauser (Director Media & Film Studies) moderated by Tisha Graham (midwife and founder of BirthNet, an Albany-based organization for birth justice)
Associated Programming
Tue, March 19 - Workshop on poetry and storytelling with Carey Glenn and Emily Graham
@ 1:30-3pm, Tang Museum Mezzanine
Wed, March 20 - Presentation: The Alchemy of Adrenaline with Carey Glenn and Emily Graham
@ 5:30-6:30pm, Emerson Auditorium
Childbirth is a social and emotional event, to be sure. It is also, at its most basic,
a hormonal one. We describe the cocktail and cascade of endogenous hormones that drive
the process of birth, focusing on adrenaline, which is often ignored in the name of
lauding oxytocin. Adrenaline is a major factor in the efficacy of birth, and all people
present during a birth will feel its effects in their bodies. We discuss its gifts,
potential negative ramifications, and simple tools for using this powerful hormone
to be mindful
and present without disturbing the birthing mother.
Speaker Bios:
Emily Graham and Carey Glenn are mystics and midwives, each with over ten years of experience attending births in a variety of settings. Emily’s apprenticeship brought her from the rural outreaches of Amish country to the southern United States, where she studied Holistic Midwifery and earned her certification as a doula, midwife, childbirth educator and consultant.
Carey practiced as doula and lactation counselor while engaged in a traditional apprenticeship with the deeply religious midwives of upstate South Carolina to become a licensed midwife.
Event series hosted by Denise McQuade of the Skidmore Biology Department with support from: Skidmore departments of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, Psychology, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Media and Film Studies, MDOCS, Tang Teaching Museum, Health Promotions, HPAC, and Scribner Library.
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