“Black redaction and Black annotation are ways of imagining an otherwise.”
Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
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American physician James Marion Sims is known as the “father of modern gynecology,” who pioneered his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved African women (based on the false assumption that Black women feel less pain). In 2018, after protests by Black community organizers, New York City officials finally removed a monument to Sims in Central Park, where it had stood across from the New York Academy of Medicine since 1934.
American physician James Marion Sims is known as the “father of modern gynecology,” who pioneered his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved African women (based on the false assumption that Black women feel less pain). In 2018, after protests by Black community organizers, New York City officials finally removed a monument to Sims in Central Park, where it had stood across from the New York Academy of Medicine since 1934.
SEC. 01
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
SEC. 02
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
SEC. 03
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
SEC. 04
ENDING SILENCES
ENDING SILENCES
SEC. 05
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
SEC. 06
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES