The Darkest Light
Exploring the untold stories of birth and motherhood in Sri Lanka. Pushing back against stereotypes and stigmas of the "perfect mother". Challenging dominant cultural narratives about women, labour and child-care. Questioning medical and obstetric birthing practices. Searching for grassroots reproductive justice in South Asia.
The Darkest Light
Smiling While Pushing
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Kanya
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Season 1
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Episode 1
In the pilot episode, The Darkest Light host Kanya D'Almeida talks to her mother about what it was like to give birth in Sri Lanka a generation ago—in 1983.
Their candid conversation is interspersed with Kanya's own birth story, from 2019.
The two women gave birth just 30 years apart, but their experiences were so different they may as well have taken place in different centuries.