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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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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcha_Westcott

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Imagine meeting someone who wanted to learn your past not to punish you, but to understand how you needed to be loved.

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Being thankful for what you do or did have, gets you through a lot of bad days.

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From HONCHO magazine (Sept 1981)

Photo story called “Pool Aid”

photo by Phil Flasche

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Steven Menendez photography

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𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗳𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 and 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘀 photographed by Jim French

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Artwork Copyright © Tyler Spangler

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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Odessa, Ukraine | syndrom__stendalya 

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~ Yellow and Orange ~

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