Surviving Peru's Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations

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Book Talk: Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko, "Together We Fight: Surviving Peru's Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations" When: April 2 (4:00 p.m.) Where: 2432 Posvar Hall (Sociology Colloquium Room) Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko will present her new book in the Sociology Department. Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government of Alberto Fujumori that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous-language-speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non-Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilizations and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Drawing on a vast trove of first-person testimony, Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko highlights the understudied voices of victim-survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on the stories, struggles, and lived experiences of victim-survivors, Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko argues that the campaign was genocidal.  Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies; Department of Sociology; Latin American Graduate Organization of Students