BIPOC Voices Speakers Series Presents “Chicana Activism and Reproductive Justice in the Borderlands” with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo.

Register to attend this event in person or on Zoom on Thursday, September 12th, from 12:30-1:30 PM PT (3:30-4:30 PM for the East Coast).

Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an assistant professor in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and History at the University of Iowa. She received her doctorate in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. Her research interests include borderlands, women’s health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements.

She is completing her first history manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands. In it, she examines the clinics, organizations, and institutions that helped foster access to reproductive care along the border in the twentieth century. This history reveals the tensions between advocates for population control and those committed to greater reproductive care for the majority Mexican-origin women in the region. The study focuses on three institutions, Planned Parenthood and Clinica La Fe in El Paso, and FEMAP in Ciudad Juarez, shining a light on the unknown history of abortion, population control, and Chicana activism that comprised the movement in region.

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