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Eugenics and the Oppression of Bodies: Talking Back to History
June 15, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
*This is an event of interest, with a former HHL artist-in-residence, Marina Tsaplina
This community workshop will focus on how the deep prejudice in the national eugenics movement of the 1900s, including the North Carolina sterilization program, remains alive today even after the policies have been dismantled. Through a collaborative exploration of documents and images from this history, stories from Charmaine Fuller Cooper who has helped numerous victims of N.C. sterilization policies directly, a brief performance from Marina Tsaplina that explores the ongoing “eugenics impulse,” reflective writing, and collective image making, this workshop seeks to awaken us to renewed and uplifted understandings of our bodies, stories, and our relationships to others. Refreshments will be provided. This is part of an ongoing project, Illness Revelations and the Bodies of History+Medicine+Us.
Where:
Durham Friends Historic Meetinghouse facing Alexander Avenue (or “Building B” as the sign says).
404 Alexander Ave
Durham, N.C., 27705
When: Saturday, June 15, 2019, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Parking and Accessibility: There are parking spaces adjacent to the Friends
Meetinghouse, and the room and the building are fully accessible.
Questions: Please contact Marina Tsaplina at mt315@duke.edu or Neha Aggarwal at neha19@live.unc.edu.