FILM - No Más Bebés Screening | Documentary about Madrigal v. Quilligan
Thu, Oct 03
|UTSA Downtown Campus
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
UTSA Downtown Campus, UTSA Downtown Campus Buena Vista Building Aula Canaria Auditorium (1.328)
Guests
About the event
Imagine you go to a hospital to give birth. Your doctors don’t speak your language, and you are pressured to consent to medical procedures in a language you do not understand.
NO MÁS BEBÉS is an Emmy Nominated documentary that tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers in Los Angeles who were sterilized in the 1960s and 1970s and Antonia Hernandez, the young Chicana lawyer behind the landmark civil rights case Madrigal v. Quilligan. NO MÁS BEBÉS premiered in 2016 on PBS's Emmy Award-winning series, "Independent Lens.”
MACRI and UTSA’s Democratizing Racial Justice (DRJ), with support from GoodDocs, present a screening of NO MÁS BEBÉS followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer, Virginia Espino.
Virginia Espino is an oral and public historian and leader for Latina and Latino History at UCLA's Center for Oral History Research. She developed oral history projects around Latinx civil rights struggles in California, and…