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A normal day at the pool… RELAX 

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Credit: @ThinkAnneThink

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I don’t even know who I am!

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Aisha Dee in Civilian Magazine’s Summer Issue 

“It’s empowering to learn about people who came before you who were kind of the pioneers like Josephine Baker. I hope that I’m part of this moment in history and an example for young girls,” says Dee who also finds a sense of self-love and resilience by going back through black history. “I don’t think that I’m anything special or anything like that. I just think that by existing and by making art, that’s kind of my form of protest.”

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THE FLAVOUR

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Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

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Watch: Wanda’s brother is a living example of this racial double standard.

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Teyonah Parris for LadyGunn Magazine No.17

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Angela Bassett for W Magazine. Directed by Spike Lee; Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier; Styled by Costume designer Ruth E. Carter.

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The Bold Type Season 3 “They’re Back” Trailer - The Bold Type Season 3 premieres April 9th on Freeform!

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