fuckyeahsexeducation:fuckyeahfatdykes:youwish-youcould:-imaginarythoughts-:br1ghtfutur3:lareinaana:l
fuckyeahsexeducation:fuckyeahfatdykes:youwish-youcould:-imaginarythoughts-:br1ghtfutur3:lareinaana:latinosexuality:jcoleknowsbest:invisibleblackunicorn:mimicryisnotmastery:blackbabesupremacy:What happened in Puerto RicoI wanna know what happened in Puerto RicoIt’s too late for me to remember where I put the receipts for this, but IIRC more experiments + forced hysterectomies on women.^^^ yeap… keep in mind Tuskegee happened at a HBCU and lasted 40 years (originally only planned to last 3 months) and the US knew of a ‘cure” penicillin. In Puerto Rico: oral birth control pills trials (with not full disclosure given to participants and some deaths during trials) more at PBS “The Puerto Rican Pill Trials“ this also happened in Haiti. My testimonio re: not celebrating the pill here. (tw: white folks don’t like my pov just see comments and this article was posted on other sites where white folks didn’t dig it either).forced sterilization of PR women (we still have the highest rates of sterilization, read more about the 3 generations of sterilization (non-consensual and consensual) in her book, Matters of Choice, Iris Rodriguez who does qualitative work interviewing women in families, she also coined the phrase “agency within constraints” in her texts about this topic. this has happened with various women of color and women with disabilities throughout US history and currently. They experimented on Puerto Ricans in the Rockefeller center for years as well, illegally. And yeah, the medical abuse of white supremacy extends much further than most realize. It’s as big of a industrial complex as the military or the prison system.Hell they made penicillin by stealing a black woman’s DNA, a black woman who they never compensated and let die off after they stole the DNA.Why doesn’t this have more notes Because white people don’t like to reblog the truthThe U.S government and pharmaceutical companies experimented with birth control on Puerto Ricans and committed mass sterilization resulting in a third of the child bearing age being systemically sterilized. Elementary schools were closed down because there were not enough 1st graders to attend them. More stories have been documented in the Rosie Perez documentary ‘Yo soy Boricua, pa’que tu lo sepas!’ or the book ‘Undivided Rights’ that go into the organizing of reproductive justice by women of color because forced and coerced sterilization happened to all communities of color in this country.This is part of the very ugly side of reproductive health. There are many stories like this and similar things happening even today by our government and other western governments being done to other countries and specifically people of color. White supremacy is a big part of western medicine and that includes reproductive health. Never forget that. -- source link