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Gynecology’s Outrageously Dirty Secret: Medicalized Female Genital Mutilation
Modern gynecology grew from violent roots. J. Marion Sims, celebrated by some as the “father of gynecology,” performed repeated surgeries on enslaved Black women in the 1840s without anesthesia or consent. He justified it by falsely claiming they didn’t feel … Continue reading →
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Tagged consent, enslaved women, gynecologist, gynecology, history of gynecology, medical abuse, pain, pelvic pain, perineorrhaphy, sexualized violence, the husband stitch, urogynecologist
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Why So Many People Can’t Believe and Support Trauma Survivors
Recently, I encountered significant opposition after I posted about the sexual assault I experienced by a member of the US Coast Guard (USCG). The event felt like a set-up, and it seemed like a pattern. But the USCG declined accountability. … Continue reading →
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Tagged coast Guardsman, cognition, cognitive dissonance, consent, denial, Education, hierarchy, institutions, justice, law enforcement, Medicine, professional abuse, psychiatry, safety, sailing, sexualized violence, survivors, systems, titles, uniforms, United States Coast Guard, USCG, victim blaming, victims, vulnerability
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The Distribution of Predators in Healthcare
Six years ago today, I became a victim of medicalized sexual violence at the hands of a gynecologist who used his position of power to assault me while I was unconscious, removing healthy tissue without my consent. I reported his … Continue reading →
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Tagged accountability, consent, delaware, Deputy Attorney General, Earl Bradley, Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, gynecologist, hierarchy, hospital, Informed Consent, justice, Larry Nassar, Licensing Board, medical abuse, Medical PTSD, Medicalized FGM, Mental Health, power dynamics, predators in medicine, PTSD, Robert Hadden, safety, sexual Assault, structural failures, surgical abuse, urogynecologist
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