Talking Reproductive Rights and Forced Sterilizations with Director Erika Cohn

The new film ‘Belly of the Beast’ explores the legacy of forced sterilizations in California’s prison system

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
7 min readNov 23, 2020

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“Belly of the Beast.” Photo: Idle Wild Films/PBS Independent Lens

In 2000, Kelli Dillion was 24 years old when she began to feel abdominal pain. An inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility, the world’s largest…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/