They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. No Mas Bebes is a film about the immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were pushed into sterilizations while giving birth at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s. Led by an intrepid, 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice. Join us for a fdiscussion and Q&A with the filmmaker, Renee Tajima-Pena.
No Mas Bebes will be made available to the Otis Comunity for free to stream online between March 4 and March 18. Access the 80-min documentary film will be linked here on March 4th for the community to watch and participate in a rich discussion on March 16.
Renee Tajima-Pena is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker whose films on immigration, race, and social issues include Who Killed Vincent Chin?, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha, Labor Women, The New Americans, and Calavera Highway. Her films have screened at the Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. She is now Director of the Center of EthnoCommunications at UCLA, where she is a professor and holds an endowed chair in Japanese American Studies. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alpert Award in the Arts, the USA Broad Fellowship, and a Peabody.
This event is co-sponsored by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The Zoom link to attend this event is https://otis.zoom.us/j/96937047793.
