Birth professionals from around the country gathered in Montgomery, Ala., to heal, to learn and to honor the lives and sacrifices of three women: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynecology.
Mothers of Gynecology, a statue honoring enslaved Black women who were unwilling subjects in experiments that resulted in medical advances by Michelle Browder in Montgomery, Ala.
"The history is told from the point of view of those in power and those who were in power were men and those who were in power were also white," she says."And we're talking about women, we're talking specifically about Black women, and we're talking about enslaved Black women. So it is important for us to go back and look at this history because the history informs what we're doing today when we talk about inequalities in health care.
Anarcha's hips are crafted from the spades of shovels. She faces the sky, defiant and hopeful. At the center of her body, her womb is a chasm for the world to see. That was Deborah Shedrick's responsibility. She helped construct all three, but Anarcha's womb"was her baby." "We see our clients in this art," says Denise Bolds, president of Doulas of North America or DONA International."We see the losses, we see the victories, we see the ones that make it just by the skin of our teeth and we see the fear. It's all here, it's all here, it's all here."
"And so the embodied experiences of the legacy of medical racism is that we're not believed," Cooper Owens says."And we're thought to be able to withstand pain more. We're thought to be over dependent on either government assistance or narcotics. We're sexually irresponsible. We're blamed when there are negative medical outcomes. And class doesn't protect you. Education doesn't protect you, your relationship status doesn't protect you.
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