Rezina Habtemariam

Aug 15, 2024 | logicmag.io | Bettina Judd |Rezina Habtemariam

Gynecology was built on the backs of Black women, anyway.1patient., written by Bettina Judd, is a visceral collection of poems elucidating the history of medical experimentation on Black women that produced gynecology and its technologies. Meditating on the women rendered property through slavery, Judd sharply attends to the violence that structured their lives. patient. interrogates the legacy of J. Marion Sims, a nineteenth-century medical doctor who is widely regarded as the father of gynecology.