هيلين رودريجيز ترياس

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

DE

Active from

2014-06-01

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

• “My mother was a schoolteacher who fought for reforms such as the right to teach in Spanish, the vernacular,” she explained. “English was imposed upon the Puerto Rican school system when the US military invaded in 1898.”
• “In Puerto Rico, racism was subtle. There wasn't the kind of separatist racism like in the US. I wasn't used to this.”
• “I saw that anybody who could afford an abortion could get a perfectly fine one. It would be written up as an appendectomy. Women from the US used to go to Havana to get abortions.”
• “What brought me to the women's movement was the women's health movement. The cultural elements of feminism didn't resonate with me, but abortion resonated with me. I became part of the women's movement in October 1970 at an international meeting on abortion rights attended by several thousand women and held at Barnard College in New York City.”