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Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Today, she is finally being remembered, not as a statistic, but as one of the true Mothers of Modern Gynecology, alongside Lucy and Betsey.

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Quail Rave anyone??

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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someone found a dollar this morning

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You guys are all aware that they trained people for those civil rights protests, right? That the people doing sit ins had to be trained to keep their cool as white people screamed invectives and pouring drinks on them? It was a very organized operation.

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I love dandelions!

*puts a dandelion in your hair*

Reblog to put a dandelion in prev's hair

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I love dandelions!

*puts a dandelion in your hair*

Reblog to put a dandelion in prev's hair

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It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.

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would be fascinated if you added the metric by which you measure the concept of "a better life"

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Please reblog for reach. This poll is probably going to get passed around Kansas residents more than non residents but I need imput from both parties

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i need to read more academic articles to make my yaoi more insane

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What's the first question that really pops into peoples' minds about Ea-Nasir? I'm trying to write this history down, but I'm struggling.

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Sometimes I am posessed by the spirit of my peasant ancestors and I just throw together a bunch of root vegetables and cook them because I am so very hungry and just spontaneously do thing that otherwise would take time to motivate myself.

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okay so armand was torturing daniel in that room for several days. and he'd already lost a lot of blood AND had taken a lot of drugs AND was injured. this to me means that in order to keep daniel somewhat lucid armand probably gave him food/water at some point.

i know we can say that armand gave him vampire blood and this would reset some of these factors. however, consider that (a) armand seems very resistant to share his blood with humans generally and daniel specifically (b) it scratches a different itch to imagine armand had to, like, order pizza or go down to a corner store or put coins into a vending machine. then come back and try to feed daniel a snickers bar and a pepsi. to keep the torture going,

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A comic I did for a roadrunner-themed anthology collected by my local indie comics group, 7000BC.

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Re: Cow Poll

I do remember where I have had cow encounters. It's just that I have a bad memory and I think there was a point in my life as a child where being in the vicinity of a cow was unremarkable so I can't remember specific examples.

But yeah I've been to enough county fairs and 4-H festivals to have been near a cow.