Did you know that the father of gynecology is a man? 

Did you know that J. Mario Sims, the father of gynecology conducted his experiments/research on enslaved Black women without anesthesia, medical ethicists, historians and others say his use of enslaved Black bodies as medical test subjects falls into a long, ethically bereft history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks. 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.

So why the heck I am sharing this? Because this episode with Dagmar Khan, a pelvic floor specialist, shares how powerful women are. That as women, we need to listen to our bodies. That as a woman we need to know ourselves better and for such a long time, the narrative about women should have been created by men. 

An important conversation and I hope you learn a thing or two from this episode. 

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