1. What does the Puerto Rican flag đŸ‡”đŸ‡· have to do with birth control? This isn't a question any person shouldn't know the answer to. #PuertoRico
2. Birth control's history is often told from the perspective of Margaret Sanger as a woman’s savior. If you believe that she was a feminist nurse whose work was to the benefit of all women, then this post is about to get real uncomfortable quick.⁠
3. Sanger was NOT trying to make birth control available to minorities & the poor out of the goodness of her heart. No! She believed in eugenics. And defending her as “a woman of her time” doesn’t change the history.
4. Sanger believed that people me (a Mexican/ Native American) & my lineage were the unfavorable & that stopping us from "breeding" was the solution towards a better society.⁠ If you are a minority or ever lived in poverty, she believed this about you too.
5. Puerto Rico, the island where the US abused women's bodies in the name of reproductive technology. This is where birth control was developed without informed consent & their deaths put on the hush. #PuertoRico
6. There is a long line of women to be thanked for birth control, but sadly, Sanger gets the glory. This is my dedication in my book Beyond the Pill: "To the women who went before us so we could see there is a better way."
7. Our sisters died & suffered for that pill to be made available while Sanger gets the glory.⁠ Sanger saw the Ku Klux Klan as allies in moving her agenda forward. Her involvement with them has been condemned.⁠
8. I am going to say something real uncomfortable, but I need you to hear it. Birth control is a tool born out of racism & every person who is telling us not to question it, not to talk about the side effects, & that what we experience isn't real is upholding this racism.⁠
9. ⚠Using birth control does NOT make you racist. Please don’t misunderstand.

We have a right to birth control AND to question it. Don’t be silenced.
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