Reproductive Injustice: Belly of the Beast Q&A #062

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In this episode of the podcast, we are honored to share a Q&A with Erika Cohn filmmaker of Belly of the Beast.
Belly of the Beast is an incredibly powerful film-from their trailer: It is about when a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California's women's prisons. They wage a near impossible battle against the department of corrections. With the growing team of investigators inside prison, working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes from inadequate health care to sexual assault, to coercive sterilizations primarily targeting women of color. The shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people demanding attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
In this conversation with Erika, we want to share more with you to grow our understanding about these injustices, about what has happened and what continues to happen in our carceral system.
We are diving into these themes:
~Honoring the lived experiences of those incarcerated
~Structural racism's impact on the carceral reproductive care
~How eugenics presently operates in the USA
~Consent within coercive environments
~Overcoming obstacles to create change
Find more of Erika's info here at her guest profile!
Get involved:
Watch Belly of the Beast film for additional context and insight
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Apply for Involuntary Sterilization Reparations

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