The Suthern Twang

                                                 In America, the concerns and pains of black women are ignored.  The history of black women’s pain being ignored can be traced back to slavery; in that span of 400 years,   black women were used as sexual chattel and became the first (unwilling) patients of gynecology. The experimental reproductive surgeries being conducted on enslaved black women are documented, the most well-known case was from J. Marion Simmons - the ‘father of gynecology’. In his autobiography, he notes that the experimental surgeries he conducted on enslaved black women, in the 1840s, were done without any anesthesia and were extremely painful-to the point of death. The absurd assumption that black women could withstand more pain than white women, led many physicians to believe that black women should receive little-t...