Illustrations of the Mechanical

Obstetric violence is one of the attacks that feminized bodies suffer at the hands of the medical institutions in Puerto Rico. These aggressions increase and are aggravated in the case of Afro-descendant patients. In Ilustraciones de la mecánica, Las Nietas de Nonó explore the control of racialized, feminized and colonized anatomies through medicine (forced sterilizations and the lack of inclusion of patients in the decision-making process about their own bodies, among others), education, prisons and police surveillance in poor communities in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.