No Más Bebés: Film and conversation with producer/researcher Virginia Espino

A film screening of No Más Bebés and conversation with producer and researcher Virginia Espino will be held as part of the 2018 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Health. Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, will introduce the film and moderate a discussion with Espino following the showing. The event will be held Wednesday, March 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A.

About the film

This is the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who sued Los Angeles county doctors, the state and the federal government after they were sterilized while giving birth in the 1970s. Led by an intrepid young Chicana lawyer, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice.

About the event

The Social Justice Institute, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, the Schubert Center for Child Studies, the Alianza Latina/Latino Alliance, SAVE (Sexual Assault and Violence Educators) and Latino Medical Student Association will sponsor the event. Registration is available online.