Maria DeJesus. In Los Sures, she was the black-eyelined lipstick wearing 14-year-old we saw onscreen, as we heard Marta talking about the challenges of being a single parent. Maria recounts the story of her first love, which brought her on a journey that made a permanent impact on her life. Decades later, she contemplates whether she was the victim of more than just young love. Her suspicions correlate with a history of coercive sterilization of poor women and women of color in the U.S. We speak with Dorothy Roberts, an Academic and Author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty. In her research, she tells the stories of many women who lost their ability to have children at the hands of unregulated birth control policies. (2012)
Director
Kaitlin Prest
Kaitlin Prest is an audio artist working with radio, performance and installation. She is the creative director of Audio Smut, and a producer/sound director at Life of the Law. Both shows are independently produced and distributed podcasts with a flair for audio craftsmanship. Her work has been featured on NPR, the CBC, Radiotopia’s The Truth, at In the Dark Radio, in the Radio Cinema in Copenhagen, the Henry Miller Museum and more. She was selected to judge the first year of audio submissions to the Sheffield Doc/Fest alongside Jad Abumrad and Kari Hesthamer. She is dedicated to innovation in audio storytelling, in radio and beyond.
Kaitlin Prest
Kaitlin Prest is an audio artist working with radio, performance and installation. She is the creative director of Audio Smut, and a producer/sound director at Life of the Law. Both shows are independently produced and distributed podcasts with a flair for audio craftsmanship. Her work has been featured on NPR, the CBC, Radiotopia’s The Truth, at In the Dark Radio, in the Radio Cinema in Copenhagen, the Henry Miller Museum and more. She was selected to judge the first year of audio submissions to the Sheffield Doc/Fest alongside Jad Abumrad and Kari Hesthamer. She is dedicated to innovation in audio storytelling, in radio and beyond.