Posts tagged Ambivalence
Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez speaks about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who were forcibly sterilized at a federally-funded health clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. 

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