Oh and don’t forget that modern gynecology was built on black women’s suffering, but there are some cool people working to honor their legacy.
How Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha became foremothers of gynecology — Harvard GazetteHutchins exhibit, “A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology,” centers around lives of three enslaved women who underwent unspeakable experiments without anesthesia for J. Marion Sims.news.harvard.edu