You Don’t Know My Name shines a light on birthing people who’ve been directly impacted by incarceration and children separated from incarcerated parents. The film highlights the crucial, lifesaving work of prison doulas. It showcases the Ostara Initiative, an organization for prison doula projects in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Washington. While working to end the mass incarceration of mothers, the organization limits the harms of prison birth through providing critical support to incarcerated pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people.

Across the country, a movement is working to bring to a complete end to the shackling of people who are incarcerated during childbirth and postpartum recovery, as well as to protect the reproductive rights of people who are imprisoned. Additionally, the film highlights the importance of parent and child bonding in early years, for children’s development as well as for new parents as they experience the life-changing transformation of having children.