Newspaper Articles
“Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval.” by Corey G. Johnson July 7, 2013. Reveal News. https://revealnews.org/article/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california-prisons-without-approval
“Prison doctor blamed for excessive sterilizations: Excessive sterilizations, unhealthy methods alleged.” By Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting. Feb 15, 2014. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/prison-doctor-blamed-for-excessive-sterilizations-5238882.php
“California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization: In the 20th century, U.S. eugenics programs rendered tens of thousands of people infertile” By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira. March 22, 2018. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-targeted-latinas-forced-sterilization-180968567/
“California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations.” By Adam Beam. July 7, 2021. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/california-business-science-health-government-and-politics-bb019f426cdbb839790ac98d420a0224
“Beautiful Strength: ‘Sobrevivir’ Pays Homage to the Women Coerced to Sterilization in 1960s and ’70s L.A.” By Carren Jao. July 19, 2022.
“California trying to find, compensate sterilization victims.” By Adam Beam. January 2, 2023. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/politics-health-california-state-government-prisons-b560ec0a0155d8cc13730310e1073d9d
“More pain for California’s forced sterilization patients.” By Lynn La. March 22, 2023. Cal Matters. https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/03/forced-sterilization-california/
“‘I would have been a great mom’: California finally pays reparations to woman it sterilized.” By Cayla Mihalovich. October 7, 2024. Cal Matters. https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/10/reparations-forced-sterilization/
Scholarly Presentations and Talks
“Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenics and the Legacy of Slavery” By Rana Hogarth. National Human Genome Research Institute. December 2, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjz9C5I3Psg
“The Impact of Eugenic Legacies on Queer & Trans Communities.” In conversation with Susan Raffo, Kenyon Farrow, Sebastian Margaret, and Isa Noyola. Dismantling Eugenics: A Convening. 9/26/21 – 10/2/21 https://antieugenicsproject.org/video-archive/the-impact-of-eugenic-legacies-on-queer-trans-communities/
“Eugenics and Sterilization in the US: Patterns, Experiences and Legacies” By Alexandra Minna Stern. National Human Genome Research Institute. December 10, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAQQpU0REY
“Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.” Liat Ben-Moshe. April 13, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofRgzXO97tQ
Books and Peer Reviewed Articles
Avila, Vrindavani, and Jennifer Elyse James. 2024. “Controlling Reproduction and Disrupting Family Formation: California Women’s Prisons and the Violent Legacy of Eugenics” Societies 14, no. 5: 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050073
Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the black body: Race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. Vintage, 2014. https://bookshop.org/p/books/killing-the-black-body-race-reproduction-and-the-meaning-of-liberty-dorothy-roberts/6723871
Roth, Rachel, and Sara L. Ainsworth. “If they hand you a paper, you sign it: a call to end the sterilization of women in prison.” Hastings Women’s LJ 26 (2015): 7. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/Roth_If_They_Hand_You_1_15_2015.pdf
Stanley and Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. AK Press. 2011. https://www.akpress.org/captivegenders.html
Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic nation: Faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America. Vol. 17. Univ of California Press, 2016. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/eugenic-nation/paper
Sufrin, Carolyn. Jailcare: Finding the safety net for women behind bars. Univ of California Press, 2017. https://www.jailcare.org/
Whatcott, Jess. Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics. Duke University Press, 2024. https://www.dukeupress.edu/menace-to-the-future
“Confronting Pregnancy Criminalization: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Providers, Lawyers, Medical Examiners, Child Welfare Workers, and Policymakers.” [Formerly Known As] National Advocates for Pregnant Women. June 2022. https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/resources/confronting-pregnancy-criminalization-guide/
Appleman, Laura I. “Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration.” DUKE LAW JOURNAL 68 (December 2018): 62. https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/deviancy-dependency-and-disability-appleman-vol68-iss3/
Gonzales, Angela, Judy Kertész, and Gabrielle Tayac. “Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(Con)Struction of American Indians in the Southeast.” The Public Historian 29, no. 3 (January 1, 2007): 53–67. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.3.53.
Roth, Rachel. “‘She Doesn’t Deserve to Be Treated Like This’: Prisons as Sites of Reproductive Injustice.” Radical reproductive justice: Foundation, theory, practice, critique (2017): 285-301. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/Roth%202017%20Prisons%20Reproductive%20Injustice.pdf
Whatcott, Jess. “No selves to consent: Women’s prisons, sterilization, and the biopolitics of informed consent.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018): 131-153. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26553061
Stern, Alexandra Minna, Nicole L. Novak, Natalie Lira, Kate O’Connor, Siobán Harlow, and Sharon Kardia. “California’s Sterilization Survivors: An Estimate and Call for Redress.” American Journal of Public Health 107, no. 1 (January 2017): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303489.
