Forced Sterilization Survivors Undertake Own Healing After Feeling 'Silenced Again' by State | KQED
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"The memorialization process echoes what we saw across the whole program, which was a following of the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law," said Jennifer James, an associate professor of sociology at UCSF and member of CCWP.
Advocates and survivors expressed their feelings of exclusion and disrespect, stating they were 'revictimized and silenced again' as community engagement requirements were removed from the contracts.
Remarkably, after minimal progress in its first year, the state agencies simply rewrote contracts to eliminate community engagement requirements they had failed to meet, impacting survivors.
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