This piece I wrote in 2016 is about the sterilization of Latinas in Los Angeles in the 1970s. There’s a lot of history in it. Tweet added by Shereen Marisol Meraji @RadioMirage

Shereen Marisol Meraji

4 years

This piece I wrote in 2016 is about the sterilization of Latinas in Los Angeles in the 1970s. There’s a lot of history in it.

Film Portrays A 'Perfect Storm' That Led To Unwanted Sterilizations For Many Latinas

About 40 years ago, Consuelo Hermosillo went to the hospital for an emergency cesarean section. Against her will, she left unable to have more children. No Más Bebés airs tonight on PBS.

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Black Hammer Chicago

@BlackHammerChi

4 years

@RadioMirage Birth control was built off the experimentation on and sterilization of Puerto Rican bodies too, these colonizers will always build their medicine off our deaths.

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Laurie Mar Garriga

@GarrigaLaurie

4 years

@RadioMirage A bit more about mass forced sterilization in Puerto Rico. Ana María

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N’Jeri Eaton (she/her)

@njerieaton

4 years

@RadioMirage @NPRCodeSwitch @BOTBFilm is a new film about the recent sterilizations of women in California prisons. They never stop. They just keep finding new populations of vulnerable. It's infuriating.

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Tammie Visintainer 🍉🕊️🤍

@tavisint

4 years

@RadioMirage Heart wrenching & infuriating 💔! Having been through labor, that already vulnerable women were/ARE taken advantage of in that moment leveled me 🤬. The PAIN, the emotions, fear etc. even from my privileged position and w/ english fl, coherency let alone "consent" is NOT possible

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