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here are a few pieces from @WearYourVoice to help contextualize Sunday night's episode of #LovecraftCountry 
(cw: medical/scientific racism)
Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey were test subjects of Marion J. Sims, whom he operated on without anesthesia. https://wearyourvoicemag.com/racist-roots-gynecology-black-women-birthed/
(cw: medical/scientific racism)
Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey were test subjects of Marion J. Sims, whom he operated on without anesthesia. https://wearyourvoicemag.com/racist-roots-gynecology-black-women-birthed/
(cw: reproductive & sexual violence) "Through these torturous operations, which were open for observation to local physicians and medical students, Sims discovered a method to cure the vesico-vaginal fistulas from which [Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey] suffered."
(cw: reproductive & sexual violence) "A vesico-vaginal fistula is [a condition which] often presents following a long, harrowing experience with childbirth or after a brutal sexual assault... [it] was disproportionately high among enslaved Black women during the 19th century."
(cw: reproductive & sexual violence) "...this was directly due to the amount of sexual & reproductive violence that enslaved Black women & girls endured on the plantation. This means that the disorder itself was tangled up with the institution of slavery."
"The medical field is, in so many ways, built upon & upheld through the dehumanization of Blackness. Black people’s bodies have been violated in unthinkable ways to serve the advancement of white men in the field of gynecological study, and racial bias still exists within [it]."
(cw: medical/scientific racism & spoilers for Project Power)
"the lead scientist in the film, acknowledges [the history of racist, unethical research], linking her research to the scientists who operated on Henrietta Lacks." https://wearyourvoicemag.com/project-power-scientific-exploitation-black-women/
"the lead scientist in the film, acknowledges [the history of racist, unethical research], linking her research to the scientists who operated on Henrietta Lacks." https://wearyourvoicemag.com/project-power-scientific-exploitation-black-women/
"She further argues that 'all of our greatest advancements began in darkness… but it’s up to the pioneers to light the way.' [She] considers herself a savior because experimenting on the most vulnerable is acceptable as long as the powerful can profit."
J. Marion Sims, Francois Marie Prevost, Ephraim McDowell, & Georges Cuvier "are considered pioneers whose great advancements began in the darkness of Black women’s bodies, but the pain, misery, and capture of Black women serve as an addendum to their overall success."
(cw: medical/scientific racism) "Black Museum would have been just as heinous if it replaced the pain sensory cap with the speculum used by James Marion Sims to experiment on Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey." https://wearyourvoicemag.com/black-mirrors-black-museum/
"Replacing the conscious stuffed animal with syringes used in the Tuskegee Experiment, a 'study' in which white health officials lied to nearly 400 Black men about treating their syphilis, would still accurately portray a lack of informed consent."
"Black bodies being subjected to sub par care and being regarded as less human isn’t solely a relic of the past."
