Thread by @kkrreebbss, THREAD // On forced sterilizations and ICE: This is not new for [...]

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., it’s 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/

‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at...

Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect”...

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

8 Shocking Facts About Sterilization in U.S. History

A recent report from the Center for Investigative Studies has shed light on the practice of female sterilization in a California prison during a period of four years (2006-2010). According to...

https://www.mic.com/articles/53723/8-shocking-facts-about-sterilization-in-u-s-history#.2HykXjWH2

On slavery, racialization, and eugenics: Jenifer Barclay’s essay on “The Greatest Degree of Perfection”
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/

Medical Bondage

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that t...

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354750/medical-bondage/

Alison Kafer’s “At the Same Time, Out it Time: Ashley X” (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

Psychiatric Hegemony - A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness | Bruce Cohen | Palgrave Macmillan

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed...

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137460509

NO MÁS BEBÉS, a documentary on the sterilization of Mexican mothers in LA: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mas-bebes/ @NoMasBebes

No Más Bebés | Documentary about Madrigal v. Quilligan Coerced Sterilization Case | Independent...

No Más Bebés is the story of Mexican mothers who claim they were coerced into sterilization procedures at a Los Angeles hospital in late 1960s and ‘70s.

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mas-bebes/

The Buck v Bell court case on sterilization and “feeble minded” 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-

Forced Sterilization of Native Americans: Late Twentieth Century

https://cbhd.org/content/forced-sterilization-native-americans-late-twentieth-century-physician-cooperation-national-

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