
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Congratulations, Chikako!! 🎉<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Jade S. Sasser, PhD<div>Associate Professor </div><div>University of California, Riverside </div><div>jadesasserphd.com</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 27, 2024, at 8:45 AM, Dana Simmons via Sehefac <sehefac@lists.ucr.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div>Celebrating Chikako, who is extensively quoted in this piece in <i>Slate</i> about the IUD: <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/birth-control-hormonal-side-effects-iud-dalkon-shield.html">https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/birth-control-hormonal-side-effects-iud-dalkon-shield.html</a></div><div>"The development of the modern IUD is inextricably linked to the population control movement, as Chikako Takeshita documents in her book <i>The Global Biopolitics of the IUD</i>. In the 1950s, governments, international organizations, and wealthy funders began to fret over a “population explosion in the global South,” she writes. This, in their minds, could cause all sorts of problems: hunger, environmental destruction, political unrest, communism—all the way up to nuclear war...." </div><div>Congrats, Chikako, and thanks for this intervention!</div><div>Dana<br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dana Simmons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cooperating Faculty, Department of History</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Riverside</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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