Quiara Alegría Hudes

Quiara Alegría Hudes’ new memoir is My Broken Language. A Pulitzer Prize recipient, Hudes also wrote the Tony Award winning In the Heights for stage and film.

Forced Sterilization

#OurMothersToo: Reckoning With My Abuela’s Coerced Sterilization #OurMothersToo: Reckoning With My Abuela’s Coerced Sterilization

By 1974, tubal ligations became so ubiquitous on the island that over a third of its women had received la operación—giving Puerto Rico the highest sterilization rate in the world.

Jun 17, 2021 / Quiara Alegría Hudes

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