forced sterilization

Justice
Politics

'Sick and tired of being sick and tired': making the connection between disenfranchisement and disease

October 6, 2016 - On what would have been the 99th birthday of Mississippi voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, we recall her untimely death from heart disease at the age of 59 — a testament that denying a group of people political power is literally hazardous to their health.

Southern Exposure

The “Good” Mother

By Siobán Harlow

August 1, 1990 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 18 No. 2, "Birth Rights." Find more from that issue here. …

forced sterilization

'Sick and tired of being sick and tired': making the connection between disenfranchisement and disease

The “Good” Mother

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