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Media Coverage.

News, articles, and opinion pieces related to, referencing, or utilizing  the project.
Interviews and Discussions
  1. Tom Williams, interview with James Tabery, “Forcible Sterilization in Utah with James Tabery on Monday’s Access Utah,” Access Utah, 27 February 2023.
  2. Alexandra Minna Stern, “Was Germany Alone a Nation That Practiced Eugenics?” America Trends Podcast, 9 August 2021.
 
Media Coverage (General)
  1. Linda Villarosa, “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America,” The New York Times Magazine, 8 June 2022.
  2. Indigo Olivier, “The ‘Uterus Collector’: The Surgeon Who Performed Coerced Hysterectomies on Detained Migrant Women,” The Conversationalist, 27 January 2022.
  3. Paul Rosenberg, “Activists Call Out Legacy of Racism and Sexism in Forced Sterilization,” Shepherd, 24 January 2022.
  4. Phil Barber, “How Sonoma County Became the Dark Center of America’s Forced Sterilization Movement,” Napa Valley Register, 7 November 2021.
  5. Sara Luterman, “For Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control is Routine,” The Nation, 15 July 2021. 
  6. El Tecolote Team, “Radio Teco: The Fight Against Forced Sterilization,” El Tecolote, 26 April 2021. 
  7. National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases, “Healthy Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 19 April 2021.  
  8. Holly A. McKenzie, Colleen Varcoe, Dory Nason, Betty McKenna, Karen Lawford, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Cassandra Opikokew Wajuntah, Laverne Gervais, Jannica Hoskins, Jacqueline Anaquod, Jasmond Murdock, Rebecca Murdock, Katryna Smith, Jillian Arkles, and Sharon Acoose, “Indigenous Women Resisting Colonial Policies, Practices and Reproductive Coercion,” 7 April 2021. 
  9. Anagha Srikanth, “Dark history of deceptive sterilization of thousands of Latinos weighs on COVID-19 vaccinations,” The Hill, 16 March 2021. 
  10. Alexandra Minna Stern, “How the Los Angeles Times shilled for the racist eugenics movement,” Los Angeles Times, 28 February 2021. 
  11. Center for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities, “COVID-19: Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups,” 7 January 2021. 
  12. Catherine E. Shoichet, “In a Horrifying History of Forced Sterilizations, Some Fear the US is Beginning a New Chapter,” CNN, 16 September 2020. 
  13. Lisa Reinsberg, “China's Forced Sterilization of Uyghur Women Violates Clear International Law,” Just Security, 29 July 2020. 
  14. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups,” 24 July 2020. 
  15. Austin Frakt, “Race and Medicine: The Harm that Comes from Mistrust,” New York Times, 13 January 2020. 
  16. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2019. 
  17. Caroline Lieffers, “California's Eugenic Sterilization Program,” Disability History Association Podcast, 9 September 2019. 
  18. Paul Fleming, William D. Lopez, Charo Ledon, Mikel Llanes, Adreanne Waller, Melanie Harner, Ramiro Martinez, and Daniel J. Kruger, “'I'm going to look for you and take your kids': Reproductive Justice in the Context of Immigration Enforcement,” PLOS One 4, June 2019. 
  19. Alexandra Minna Stern, “Clarence Thomas’ Linking Abortion to Eugenics is as Inaccurate as it is Dangerous,” Newsweek, 31 May 2019. 
  20. Eli Rosenberg, “Clarence Thomas Tried to Link Abortion to Eugenics. Seven Historians Told The Post He’s Wrong,” Washington Post, 30 May 2019. 
  21. Molly Ladd-Taylor and Johanna Schoen, “State Efforts to Recriminalize Abortion are an Echo of America’s Eugenics Past,” HNN, 26 May 2019. 
  22. Ketayoun Darvich-Kodjouri, “Daughters and Mothers, Making Our Way: What I've Learned from a Long Line of 'Non-Compliant' Mothers about Battling Life's Headwinds,” Medium, 9 May 2019. 
  23. Maija Anderson, “Reviews: The Eugenic Rubicon: California's Sterilization Stories,” The American Archivist 82, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 225–229. 
  24. Nick Buckley, “How John Harvey Kellogg Was Wrong on Race,” Battle Creek Enquirer, 21 March 2019.  
  25. Christine Dehlendorf and Kelsey Holt, “The Dangerous Rise of the IUD as Poverty Cure,” The New York Times, 2 January 2019. 
 
Media Coverage (California Compensation and Reparations)
  1. Carolyn Said, “‘There’s no amount of money that can take away how I felt’: California Pays Reparations to Survivors of State-Sanctioned Sterilizations,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 February 2022.
  2. Nadia Lopez, “California Forcibly Sterilized People for 70 Years. Survivors Can Now Get Compensation,” The Fresno Bee, 18 January 2022.
  3. Erin McCormick, “Survivors of California's Forced Sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything,’” The Guardian, 19 July 2021. 
  4. James Felton, “California to Pay Millions in Compensation to Victims of Its Forced Sterilization Program,” IFLScience, 15 July 2021. 
  5. Emily Galpern, “Victory for Reproductive Justice in California: New Budget Includes Reparations for Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization,” Biopolitical Times, 13 July 2021. 
  6. Daniel Trotta, “California to Compensate People Forcibly Sterilized Under Eugenics,” Reuters, 13 July 2021. 
  7. Amanda Morris, “'You Just Feel Like Nothing': California to Pay Sterilization Victims,” The New York Times, 11 July 2021. 
  8. AirTalk, “Some State Sterilization Survivors Will Be Eligible for Reparations, But Who Gets Them and How Will They Be Found?“ KPCC, 8 July 2021. 
  9. Susy Chávez, “California Approves $7.5 Million Budget Request to Provide Reparations to Survivors of State Sponsored Forced Sterilizations,” California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, July 2021. 
  10. Citlali Pizarro, “Survivors of Forced Sterilizations in California Fight a Century of Violence in Women's Prisons,” ShadowProof, 12 May 2021. 
  11. Elizabeth Marcellino, “LA County Board of Supervisors Apologies for Sterilizations of Women,” NBC, 9 August 2018. 
  12. Lilia Vega, “California Could Give Compensation to Forced Sterilization Survivors,” KALW, 8 August 2018. 
  13. Felicia Alvarez, “No Reparations: Berkeley Lawmaker Wants to Provide Monetary Damages to Survivors of Forced Sterilizations,” Sacramento News and Review, 24 May 2018. 
  14. Times Editorial Board, “Let's Compensate Victims of California's Forced Sterilization Program — Quickly, before They Die,” Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2018. 
  15. Samantha Young, “Miles de Latinas Podrían Haber Sido Esterilizadas en Hospitales Públicos de Estados Unidos,” CNN, 26 April 2018. 
  16. Samantha Young, “California Lawmakers Seek Reparations for People Sterilized by the State,” Washington Post, 25 April 2018. 
  17. Samantha Young and California Healthline, “Lawmakers Seek Reparations for People Sterilized,” Disability Scoop, 24 April 2018. 
  18. Aviva Stahl, “California Aims to Compensate Victims of State-Sponsored Sterilization,” Women's Media Center, 20 April 2018. 
  19. Nicole Knight, “Thousands Were Sterilized Under California's Eugenics Law. Now Survivors Could Get Reparations,” Rewire.News, 19 April 2018. 
  20. California Healthline, “California Lawmakers Seek Reparations for State-Sponsored Sterilization Victims,” Compton Herald, 16 April 2018. 
  21. Austin Cross, “In the Eugenics Era, Mexican American Women were Prime Targets of Sterilization in California,” Take Two KPCC, 5 April 2018. 
  22. Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, “California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization,” The Conversation, 22 March 2018. 
  23. Kate Wheeling, “It's Time for California to Compensate Sterilization Patients,” Pacific Standard, 14 June 2017. 
  24. S. E. Smith, “'When You Try to Stop It, Nothing Happens’: A Q&A on the History of Coerced Sterilization in California,” Rewire.News, 1 February 2017. 
  25. Sarah Zhang, “A Long-Lost Data Trove Uncovers California's Sterilization Program,” The Atlantic, 3 January 2017. 
  26. Holly Owens, “Researchers: Eugenics-Based Sterilization Victims Deserve Reparations,” Herald and News, 27 December 2016. 
  27. Kate Morrissey, “California Victims of Eugenics-Based Sterilization Programs Deserve Reparations, Researchers Say,” Los Angeles Times, 26 December 2016. 
  28. Kate Morrissey, “Researchers Urge Reparations for Victims of California's Eugenics Sterilization Programs,” San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 December 2016. 
  29. NPR Staff, “On a 'Eugenic Registry,' A Record of California's Thousands of Sterilizations,” NPR, 18 December 2016. 
  30. Ronnie Cohen, “Forcibly Sterilized Californians: A Law Permitting These Compulsory Operations Remained on the Books Until 1979,” Scientific American, 6 December 2016. 
  31. Ronnie Cohen, “Historians Seek Reparations for Californians Forcibly Sterilized,” Reuters, 6 December 2016. 
 
Academic Research
  1. Andrea Cohen, “Autonomy, Birth Control, and Intersectionality: Women's Ability to Control Their Own Bodies,” Undergraduate thesis, Ohio State University (May 2021). 
  2. Chelsea Finkbeiner, Celina Doria, Julia Ellis-Kahana, and Charisse Marie Loder, “Changing Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Education to Combat Reproductive Injustice: A Call to Action,” Obstetrics and Gynecology 137, No. 4 (April 2021): 717–722. DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004297.  
  3. Diana N. Carvajal, Elena Klyushnenkova, and Beth Barnet, “Latina Contraceptive Decision-Making and Use: The Importance of Provider Communication and Shared Decision-Making for Patient-Centered Care,” Patient Education and Counseling (10 March 2021). 
  4. Kearby Stiles, “The Disparities of the Marginalized: Focusing Race and Queerness in Science and Medicine,” Honors thesis, Murray State University (Spring 2021). 
  5. Alexandra Minna Stern, “Cautions About Medicalized Dehumanization,” AMA Journal of Ethics 23, No. 1 (January 2021): 64–69, DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.64.  
  6. Meredith G. Manze and Diana R. Romero, “Revisiting the Association between Race, Ethnicity, and Beliefs about Pregnancy,” Ethnicity and Disease 30, No. 4 (Autumn 2020): 525–532, DOI: 10.18865/ed.30.4.525.  
  7. Danielle R. Gartner, Anna L. Krome-Lukens, Paul L. Delamater, “Implementation of Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: Geographic Proximity to Raleigh and its Association with Female Sterilization During the Mid-20th Century,” Southeastern Geographer 60, No. 3 (Fall 2020): 254–274, DOI: 10.1353/sgo.2020.0020. 
  8. Luis A. Silva, “The Long Mexican American Movement, 1910–1954,” PhD diss., Indiana University, April 2020. 
  9. Ashley Lauren White, “Studying the ‘Snip’: A Multi-Methods Exploration of Vasectomy in the Southern United States,” PhD diss., University of South Carolina, Spring 2020. 
  10. Paul J. Fleming and Alana M. W. LeBrón, “Historical and Contemporary Reproductive Injustices at the Border and Beyond,” American Journal of Public Health 110, No. 3 (March 2020): 273–274, DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305517.  
  11. Nicolas Muñoz, “Trust and Healthcare: A Qualitative Analysis of Trust in Spanish and English Language Group Well-Child Care,” MD thesis, Yale University School of Medicine, 2020. 
  12. Sara S. Willen, “Health is a Human Right—at CDC?“ Health and Human Rights Journal 21, No. 1 (June 2019): 163–177. 
  13. Jenna Tonn, “Gender,” Encyclopedia of the History of Science (March 2019), DOI: 10.1184/LPS/J1/11. 
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