Screening of the pbs documentary no mas bebes at cinefestival. No more babies is an american documentary film that tells the story of immigrant women who were sterilized upon going into labor. For historian virginia espino, a turning point for women in the chicano movement for civil rights was the revelation that mexican and mexicanamerican women from. Ucla professors film documents forced sterilization of mexican. Having collected hospital records from a whistleblower, chicana lawyer. This incredibly moving story details how this lawsuit brought about regulatory change and exposes this alltoorecent horrific and biased. The papers referred to a consent form for a tubal ligation.
Documentary no mas bebes, directed by renee tajimapena, is a beautiful depiction of this, and a definitive reinserting of the voices and experiences of women of color into this ongoing struggle. Alongside an intrepid, 26yearold chicana lawyer and whistleblowing young doctor, the mothers mounted a civil rights lawsuit that. Quilligan, a historic lawsuit filed by10 mexicanamerican women who had been sterilized in the early 70s after. The history of sterilization of mexican immigrant women in the 1970s at the hospital was research she took on for her dissertation, research that 20 years later has served as the basis for the new documentary. This emmy nominated film lifts up the significant contribution of chicana activists who sought to redefine reproductive politics not only as the right to. Ovarian psycos, the all women of color bicycle brigade, tribute ride to the ambulante film festival screening of no mas bebes. In the new documentary no mas bebes, she recalls asking her doctor what type of birth control she should use going forward.
Based on an article i penned for uks dazed magazine, this documentary short chronicles l. No mas bebes trailer watch independent lens pbs online. As the 2015 documentary no mas bebes attests, hermosillo and her contemporaries had not. Join cinefestival for a screening of the independent lens documentary no mas bebes, set for 7 p. Narrated through the recollections of patients, doctors, lawyers, activists and. No mas bebes tells the story of a littleknown but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of mexican immigrant women sued county doctors. A new documentary airing soon on pbs covers a grisly era of california historythe forced sterilization of untold numbers of poor, mostly latino, spanishspeaking women in. On february first, no mas bebes, a documentary directed by renee tajimapena and produced by virginia.
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Congratulations to american latino influencer awardees who are featured in no mas bebes, the women of the madrigal 10 and community leaderjournalist frank cruz. The film recounts how a small group of mexican immigrant mothers and activists sued county doctors, the state, and the u. Alongside an intrepid, 26yearold chicana lawyer and whistleblowing young doctor, the mothers mounted a civil rights lawsuit that is. Csuf news center no mas bebes documentary screening.
This incredibly moving story details how this lawsuit brought about regulatory change and exposes this alltoorecent horrific and biased practice. Documentary, no mas bebes, tells story of forced sterilizations of latinas in 60s, 70s. The center for oral and public history will host a 57 p. Alongside a young chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistleblowing doctor, the mothers stood up to powerful institutions in the name of.
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