Ignoring Women’s Health is Killing Us.Dismissing, underfunding, and erasing awareness of female health needs is not progress—it is violence. There is
Ignoring Women’s Health is Killing Us.
Dismissing, underfunding, and erasing awareness of female health needs is not progress—it is violence. There is nothing revolutionary about continuing the centuries-old neglect of women’s bodies, especially Black women’s bodies.
The same hate that has always targeted women is still at work today, and mismarked as “inclusion” and “progress”. But make no mistake—when Black women’s health is ignored, dismissed, or defunded, it follows a familiar pattern of systemic disregard.
This isn’t forward-thinking. This isn’t liberation. This is straight from the “we hate women” playbook. And we see it for exactly what it is.
The sheer audacity of organizations to pretend to raise the alarm on deadly disparities when they’ve spent the last 10-15 years silencing women (from various backgrounds) and some allied gay men every time that we opened our mouths about our concerns and needs.
In the next few years, we will not be silent while people try to pretend that they did not spend years actively violating, disrespecting, deplatforming, silencing, and harming us.
We will not let it be forgotten that you placed MORE “be a good girl now” roadblocks in front of our language and choices before we were allowed access to health care.
“I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth.”
Septima Clark