http://carlagirl.net/2006/05/31/oh-fuck/ practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:53:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://carlagirl.net/2006/05/31/oh-fuck/comment-page-1/#comment-360 adrienne Wed, 31 May 2006 20:48:00 +0000 http://carlagirl.net/?p=174#comment-360 there's the added layer of emotion/resistance that gets played out or invoked here after the forced sterilization/abortion surgeries performed on native women without their consent (that stuff activist and former rape crisis counselor andrea smith explains so clearly in her amazing book <em>Conquest</em>). it sucks all the more that women of color who've been violated and oppressed in this way by the white medical establishment now are denied the opportunity to exercise reproductive agency. it's like you're damned both ways. there’s the added layer of emotion/resistance that gets played out or invoked here after the forced sterilization/abortion surgeries performed on native women without their consent (that stuff activist and former rape crisis counselor andrea smith explains so clearly in her amazing book Conquest). it sucks all the more that women of color who’ve been violated and oppressed in this way by the white medical establishment now are denied the opportunity to exercise reproductive agency. it’s like you’re damned both ways.

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