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In eastern Nepal a bridegroom will sometimes be adorned with jewelry for the wedding. This Gurung groom wears his grandmother's old-fashioned silver necklace and red glass beads. Scanned from the book The Jewelry of Nepal, Hannelore Gabriel

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A portrait of a little girl in the backseat of a car. Mali. ©Delphine Diallo

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Arne Gjorne (Dominican Republic)

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teach your children early what you learned late.

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«Feminist Africa», Issue 19 / 2014: 'Pan-Africanism and Feminism', Edited by Amina Mama and Hakima Abbas (pdf here)

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Portrait by Oumar Ly, Podor 63-78

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Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Today, she is finally being remembered, not as a statistic, but as one of the true Mothers of Modern Gynecology, alongside Lucy and Betsey.