Keep this on your radar, folks. Especially watch the language used to describe what's happening. @businessInsider #ForcedSterilizations businessinsider.com/ice-doctor-per…
Usually, "unwanted" is a dated term to describe an untimed, or unexpected, pregnancy. #SRHR #SexualHealth
Usually, it covers a lot of agency on the part of the person who became pregnant. In other words, someone who is able to become pregnant had a consensual sexual encounter, and that encounter resulted in an unexpected — or "unwanted" — pregnancy.
"Unwanted hysterectomies", on the other hand, is a strange phrase to describe the forced sterilization of kidnapped persons. #SexualHealth #SRHR
Forced sterilizations, or genocide, completely — and without an ounce of hyperbole — seem like more accurate descriptions of what's happening. #Immigration #SRHR
More than half a decade ago, in 2014, @UNHumanRights, @UN_Women, @UNAIDS, @UNDP, @UNFPA, @UNICEF, and the @WHO all united to condemn the practice. Yet, here we are in the U.S. in 2020 — performing #ForcedSterilizations.
I agree with @SenKamalaHarris. These are #ForcedSterilizations.
To cover such stories more fully, media outlets should put more #BIPOC women in writers rooms & on editorial boards. businessinsider.com/ice-doctor-per…
BIPOC communities have fairly long histories of receiving #ForcedSterilizations as part of well-documented U.S. eugenics programs.
Earlier this summer, I performed a (physically distanced) one-woman show. During it, I specifically talked about the #TuskegeeExperiment (which didn't end until 1972). eventbrite.com/e/brs-live-pre…
The #TuskegeeExperiment ended because a brave whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, called Alabama out.
mentalfloss.com/article/627262…
Another brave whistleblower, Dawn Wooten, called out the Georgia #ForcedSterilizations.
(📸: art by Angélica Becerra)
When you witness injustices, call them out — whether you belong to the community or not. (Peter is a White man. Dawn Wooten is Black woman.)
We're all in this together. ❤️ #MartinNiemöller
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