Daisy Patton, artist
with:
Virginia Espino, PhD, oral historian and health activist
Nilmini Rubin, the daughter of Mithra Ratne, a librarian and Sri Lankan immigrant who was sterilized following her daughter’s birth
Abstract: Artist Daisy Patton will present her exhibit, “Put Me Back Like They Found Me,” which tells the stories of female survivors of horrific, regular practices of forced sterilization in the US. Patton embroiders portraits of survivors as a nod to domestic labor, “women’s work,” and thread as a metaphor for life. For living survivors, the work is a collaboration between the women and the artist; each portrait is designed to contain a chosen element that has significance in their lives. Hospital gowns display painted text that focus on various survivors and the sufferings they have endured. The exhibit is offered to help people understand the pain and violation forced upon to so many people at the hands of governments, institutions, and doctors in the name of “progress” and white supremacy.
View online here.
Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Location and Address
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