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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.

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For week one of Funguary, theme: Decay

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Creating a Flemish-style overdress for the Rosie Cotton ensemble

The finished Flemish Rosie Cotton! Layers pictured here: cotton tunic, thrifted; birthday kirtle of 90/10 wool/nylon twill suiting; overdress of 90/10 wool/nylon flannel.

The pattern for this overdress was taken from the draft I made for the birthday kirtle bodice. I’m not quite used to taking pictures of every single step of my projects yet, so I have no photos of my draping process. The gist is, I traced the back bodice piece and the shoulder seams, armscye, and side seams of the front onto my linen lining, cutting the front bodice pieces with room to play at the center front. I stitched these pieces together and tried the mock-up on over my kirtle. I then pinned the excess fabric on the front bodice pieces to my kirtle, and drew a line on myself to mark where I wanted the center front edge of the overdress to land. When I took the mock-up off and evened out the lines, I ended up with something like this

I used these pieces as my pattern and a lining. Since there wasn’t a wrong side to my wool, I opted for a hyper-efficient, tessellated cutting layout.

I made sure to true the seam allowances to approximately 1 cm, with a 3 cm allowance along the front center edge, and machine-basted my lining to each pattern piece along the open edges of the bodice.

After I machine-stitched my flat-lined pieces together, I spent a long time hand-felling the seam allowances down, both in the interior seams, and along the edge. I made a half-inch, double-turned boning channel along the center front edge.