Dear John,

Join the Ms. Foundation for Women for a free online screening of Belly of the Beast, an acclaimed documentary that exposes decades-long human rights abuse of incarcerated women by the California Department of Corrections.

Filmed over 7 years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, Belly of the Beast is a contemporary legal drama that exposes systemic modern-day eugenics through forced sterilizations at the Central California Women’s Facility, the world’s largest women’s prison.  The investigations began with one courageous woman who was involuntarily sterilized then teamed up with a radical lawyer to expose a series of statewide crimes that primarily target women of color. 

Belly of the Beast was called “harrowing” by NPR and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. 

The film will be available for your viewing February 4-13.  Register for your passcode and watch at your convenience.

The Ms. Foundation offers this screening to lift up the experiences of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and impacted women and girls across the country. We share in a collective effort with our grantee partners and allies to build a fully inclusive reproductive justice movement that includes reducing racial health disparities, improving maternal mortality rates, and promoting bodily autonomy for Black women, women and girls of color, and gender nonconforming people.