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Dolen Perkins-Valdez's historical novel fictionalizes involuntary sterilizations
Listen to the episodeA historical novel inspired by the 1973 Relf sisters case, exploring forced sterilizations of Black women told from a nurse's perspective, examining the double-edged sword of birth control for Black women and the silences in African American history.
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