THREAD // On forced sterilizations and ICE: This is not new for the US. Especially in closed-door systems like immigration centers, prisons, asylums, institutions for disabled people, etc., itâs a long-standing form of eugenics and social control. Sources below

The current ICE issue: https://www.google.com/amp/s/lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/amp/
A general, accessible (and terribly titled) summary of sterilization in the US: https://www.mic.com/articles/53723/8-shocking-facts-about-sterilization-in-u-s-history#.2HykXjWH2
On slavery, racialization, and eugenics: Jenifer Barclayâs essay on âThe Greatest Degree of Perfectionâ
https://www.academia.edu/6796906/_The_Greatest_Degree_of_Perfection_Disability_and_the_Construction_of_Race_in_American_Slave_Law_in_Rhondda_Thomas_and_Angela_Naimou_eds_Locating_African_American_Literature_South_Carolina_Review_46_No_2_Spring_2014_27_43
https://www.academia.edu/6796906/_The_Greatest_Degree_of_Perfection_Disability_and_the_Construction_of_Race_in_American_Slave_Law_in_Rhondda_Thomas_and_Angela_Naimou_eds_Locating_African_American_Literature_South_Carolina_Review_46_No_2_Spring_2014_27_43
Deirdre Cooper Owens on racialization, experimentation, and the birth of American gynecology: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354750/medical-bondage/
Alison Kaferâs âAt the Same Time, Out it Time: Ashley Xâ (Ch. 2), on quality of life and disabled sexuality and sterilization: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/23617
Bruce M Z Cohen on the psychiatrization of deviance and institutional abuse: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137460509 @BmzCohen
NO MĂS BEBĂS, a documentary on the sterilization of Mexican mothers in LA: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mas-bebes/ @NoMasBebes
The Buck v Bell court case on sterilization and âfeeble mindedâ individuals: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/buck-v-bell-1927
National eugenics and the sterilization of Native women: https://cbhd.org/content/forced-sterilization-native-americans-late-twentieth-century-physician-cooperation-national-