Happy Friday Queens! It’s feminine Friday and in light of everything going on in the world at this time, I wanted to shed let on how gynecology was founded and how the vaginal steaming practice can be considered anti racist or pro black in a sense.

James Marion sims aka the father of gynecology was a former slave owner and founder of modern surgical gynecology and was arguably the most famous American surgeon of the 19th century.  Sims was known for using his slaves (mother and children) for gynecological experiments.

His most significant work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth.

Critics say Sims cared more about the experiments than in providing therapeutic treatment, and that he caused untold suffering by operating under the racist notion that black people did not feel pain. They say his use of enslaved black bodies as medical test subjects falls into a long, ethically bereft history of medical discrimination that includes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks. Sims had very little For a long time, Sims’s fistula surgeries were not successful. After 30 operations on one woman, a 17-year-old enslaved woman named Anarcha who had had a very traumatic labor and delivery, he finally “perfected” his method—after four years of experimentation.

 Afterward, he began to practice on white women, using anesthesia, which was new to the medical field at the time. While some doctors didn’t trust anesthesia, Sims’s decision to not use it—or any other numbing technique and believed based on his misguided information that black people didn’t experience pain like white people did. It’s a notion that persists today, according to a study conducted at the university of Virginia, and published in the April 4, 2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the 1850s, Sims moved to New York and opened the first-ever Woman’s Hospital, where he continued testing controversial medical treatments on his patients. His statue sits opposite the New York Academy of Medicine in Central Park, New York City, as well as in South Carolina and outside his old medical school.

Activists have been working to remove the Central Park statue for several years. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that Sims’s statue is one of the monuments under assessment in his 90-day review of “symbols of hate.”

It’s time that we educate ourselves on how to take our power back when it comes to our bodies. They’ve been trying to take our voices for far too long! Ive became a womb healer because I genuinely care about the reproductive health of all of you. These doctors are out here creating genocide with our lives in so many ways. Making us sterile with birth controls, prescribing hysterectomies for fibroids, killing us during child labor. Taking your reproductive health into your own hands and healing naturally is imperative. Vaginal steaming is a sacred practice that’s been around for centuries. Most known by midwives, medicine women and doulas this ancient herbal cleansing method allows you to tap into your goddess power while healing your womb naturally of any imbalances that occur in the womb. If you’re ready to take your feminine power back click the link to find out what Vaginal Steam is best for you!

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