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littlemissmartypants's JournalA Monument in honor of the Enslaved 'Women of Gynecology' unveiled in Montgomery
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A Monument in honor of the Enslaved ‘Women of Gynecology’ unveiled in Montgomery
BY DAN UZOMAMAY 12, 2022
For five years in the late 1840s, J. Marion Sims subjected Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy, and other unnamed enslaved women to painful surgeries without anesthesia, pain relief, or consent.
And on May 7, a monument honoring the ‘Mothers of Gynecology,’ Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, who underwent dozens of vaginal procedures performed by Sims, was unveiled in Montgomery by Montgomery artist and activist, Michelle L. Browder.
The monument is not far from where the procedures took place, and it is about a mile away from a statue of J. Marion Sims, the “father of gynecology,” which still stands in front of the Alabama State Capitol. The monument resembles wind-up clockwork artifacts: metal sculptures assembled and welded from recycled found parts because “these women were discarded,” ranging in height from 9 to 15 feet.
The sculptures contain both meaningful and painful symbolism. Lucy (9ft) is represented by the shortest figure, who has bike chains for hair. Browder created a tiara for Betsey using a speculum, a tool designed by Sims for vaginal exams (12ft). The statues are all rust and gold in color, with brighter patinas from beads and other accessories.
Surgical scissors are attached to the body of the tallest figure, Anarcha (15ft), who has a cavity in her torso graced by a single metal rose in place of her uterus. Her womb is nearby, filled with cut glass, needles, medical instruments, scissors, and sharp objects meant to make viewers feel the woman’s pain and suffering. Black women’s names are welded to the statues.
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Much more, including photographic details, at the link.
https://mbbaglobal.com/a-monument-to-the-enslaved-women-of-gynecology-isup/
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https://www.tillis.senate.gov/email-meRaleigh
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Phone: (919) 856-4630
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Charlotte
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I'm saving this for future reference. There are several past posts I've read when it would apply.
I might just start referring to it as "The Rule de La Paz."
Your post is so exceedingly terse that it has lost its context and doesn't make any cogent point.
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I joined because I was on Facebook in my high-school reunion group and one of my classmates
Posted a DU Meme. I pranced right over and hope that I live here forever because I love it sooooo much! Facebook? I've been there maybe five times in the last three years. I despise it.
I'm here every day for hours. I learn so much! And it keeps me from being lonely. Plus the DU Braintrust has saved my bacon during some emergencies.
If you don't see me here then something's seriously wrong. Please send out a search party!
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I deeply believe that we are all traumatized by these shootings.
Our collective society is under siege. If a person isn't touched by these events they are deranged and/or are manifesting antisocial personality disorder. In other words, very sick and possibly a danger to society.
How many of us here haven't started to rethink our societal interactions?
I have read at least one thread today discussing the safest times to go shopping. We consider adjusting our activities based on gun violence not just because we are fearful. We are traumatized.
Because of the frequently repeated trauma, we are unable to think critically. We're unable to conclude that it's the weapons that are the ultimate problem.
It's not the visit to the store, bar, club, synagogue, church, school, college, Post Office, restaurant ball game, party, park, street, gas station, spa, apartment, nail salon, rest stop, deli, apartment, strip club, home or in a drive by. And that's not an entirely inclusive list of actual places where these crimes occur.
We have to start thinking critically and behave differently or this will only get worse. But how much worse can it be?
I've had enough. It's time for letters, phone calls and promises to those in power who refuse to see the need for change. They need to deeply understand that they will be voted out if they refuse to listen and act accordingly.
If we can't vote them out then they need to know that we will hound them into their graves until they do something monumental to protect the people of our society.
We can refuse to live like this and we should make our refusal known and make it loud, united and crystal clear.
Enough is enough.
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Related...
1) David Zucchino’s book, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, won a Pulitzer in general nonfiction in 2021.
From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans
By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state—and the South—white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.
In 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black predators, Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record editor, wrote that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual. His editorial ignited outrage across the South, with calls to lynch Manly.
But North Carolina’s white supremacist Democrats had a different strategy. They were plotting to take back the state legislature in November “by the ballot or bullet or both,” and then use the Manly editorial to trigger a “race riot” to overthrow Wilmington’s multi-racial government. Led by prominent citizens including Josephus Daniels, publisher of the state’s largest newspaper, and former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, white supremacists rolled out a carefully orchestrated campaign that included raucous rallies, race-baiting editorials and newspaper cartoons, and sensational, fabricated news stories.
With intimidation and violence, the Democrats suppressed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes (or threw them out), to win control of the state legislature on November eighth. Two days later, more than 2,000 heavily armed Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington, torching the Record office, terrorizing women and children, and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets. The rioters forced city officials to resign at gunpoint and replaced them with mob leaders. Prominent blacks—and sympathetic whites—were banished. Hundreds of terrified black families took refuge in surrounding swamps and forests.
This brutal insurrection is a rare instance of a violent overthrow of an elected government in the U.S. It halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as official government policy, cementing white rule for another half century. It was not a “race riot,” as the events of November 1898 came to be known, but rather a racially motivated rebellion launched by white supremacists.
In Wilmington’s Lie, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history.
(Book description from Amazon)
Author interview with the Free Library of Philadelphia
2) The short movie produced by the very far right John Locke Foundation and panned by critics for its disingenuousness and misrepresentation of the event.
The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Was Anything But A Love Story
July 27, 2022
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The Wilmington Massacre was a devastating blow to what could have truly been something special, something far more special than a fictional love story. North Carolina had a chance to be a progressive state that had elected officials that actually represented the people they were elected by, and that was stolen by violent, petulant white supremacists who were willing to murder hundreds of people to keep their power.
Reframing the massacre as a love story is not only an insult that disrespects the complex history of our state, but it’s also a blatant lie. A lie meant to trivialize and romanticize a violent piece of history and act as a soothing balm over the scorching burn that the January 6th insurrection left on our country. A lie meant to teach young children that “these things happen” and the parts of history that are hard to look at aren’t worth talking about.
Opinion writer for The Charlotte Observer Paige Masten summed it up best: “What happened in 1898 wasn’t a love story, and it’s absurd and callous to rewrite it as such. There’s nothing romantic about institutionalized racism. And most of all, we shouldn’t care about it simply because it was an “important historical event.” We should care about it because it was a violently racist insurrection that made North Carolina a white supremacist state — the remnants of which are still present today.”
Snip...more at the link...
https://ncvoices.com/2022/07/the-1898-wilmington-massacre-was-anything-but-a-love-story/
3) Stage play, What the River Knows, I am proud to say is a production of a friend of mine, Alicia Inshiradu, that opens tonight at Thalian Hall in Wilmington. The play premieres tonight at 7:30. There are additional 7:30 shows on Friday and Saturday, and a 2:00 matinee on Sunday.
You can find out how to purchase tickets here...
https://www.thalianhall.org/river-knows-22
Follow the link below to view the television interview with the Lead actor Joseph Hill.
https://www.wwaytv3.com/this-weekend-stage-play-honors-lives-lost-in-1898-wilmington-massacre/
THIS WEEKEND: Stage play honors lives lost in 1898 Wilmington Massacre
November 10, 2022 Matt Bennett
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — It is 1898 Commemoration week in New Hanover County, and a new stage play aims to educate Wilmington residents about what happened in their city 124 years ago.
‘What the River Knows’ is a play adapted from a short film by the same name, created by Alicia Inshiradu. That film premiered at Cucalorus Film Festival Festival to critical acclaim.
Lead actor Joseph Hill says the play follows the life of a person who owned businesses and property in 1898 before being killed in the massacre.
“It’s really, really important to grasp that this happened to real people,” Hill said. “These people lived lives and have descendants who are still here in Wilmington to this day.”
Snip...more, including the video interview at the link...
https://www.wwaytv3.com/this-weekend-stage-play-honors-lives-lost-in-1898-wilmington-massacre/
4) Short Film THE RED CAPE
Trailer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6428174/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
A young child and his tenacious father struggle to survive a mounting white supremacy campaign that incites the violent 1898 Wilmington Massacre and Coup, a white insurrection that terrorized a thriving black community and became the only Coup d'état in United States history.
Thanks for sharing this mahatmakanejeeves.
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What is Christian Nationalism? A possibly helpful graphic and accompanying dilemmas...
When I first started working as an election judge, I was astounded by how many people relied on mailers, from their churches, to vote. Naive me, mentioned it to the "boss" judge because I believed it to be illegal electioneering and technically, it is.
He looked at me like I had sprouted an extra head and nothing more was said about it. I can take a hint and I wanted to continue to do my job. I would have to play by the unofficial rules and look the other way. As an INFJ it's a hard thing for me to do, but I did it anyway. My desire to volunteer was very strong.
That same piece of paper, actually a cardstock mailer, was passed around from voter to voter to voter until I lost count of how many people used it as a reference for casting their votes. The whole experience left me heartsick but I didn't quit because that's how we fail.
I know this is the Religion Group and technically this post is about politics but General Discussion rules forbid posting topics related to Religion. I didn't know where else to post it. Maybe that's a problem we have that needs to be reconciled if we're going to win the battle against having religion commingled with our politics. Especially since what we're talking about is distinctly Christian Nationalism.
It's bad enough now. It could get worse and I'm afraid it will. I think we need a plan to correct the trajectory. It's past time to be able to nip it in the bud. That ship sailed long ago. Any ideas?
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How to post a Twitter picture only...
1. Copy the link from the Twitter picture.
You must first open it in a background tab or a new tab then copy the link to the new tab.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7B4cMWXMAAdKzS?format=jpg&name=900x900
2. Delete everything up to and including the question mark. Usually twenty four characters.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7B4cMWXMAAdKzS
3. Add .jpg and voila.
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NC Sample Ballot and Voting Resources
Sample Ballot
Sample ballots for each election are only available once finalized.
Find Your Sample Ballot
Searching for your sample ballot? To view sample ballots, registered voters must enter their information into the Voter Search and navigate to “Your Sample Ballot.”
Link to search tool:
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Voters can practice making selections with the accessible sample ballot: “Option 4” at the N.C. Absentee Ballot Portal
Learn about the next election at Upcoming Election.
https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/sample-ballot
How to Look Up Your Sample Ballot
You can look up your sample ballot (along with your Election Day voting location or precinct and your voting districts) through a three-step process on the State Board of Elections voter lookup tool.
Sample ballots for the 2022 Midterm Elections are now live. Check the lookup below to find yours!
We provide instructions on how to complete this process below.
Then follow this three-step process to view your sample ballot and find your Election Day precinct.
1. Enter your first and last names as they appear on your voter registration record. Don’t enter a middle name. It’s not necessary to enter your birth date or county unless you have a very common name. Click “Search.”
2. Click on your name from the list of similar names to see a profile of your registration, including your precinct’s Election Day polling place, the jurisdictions you live in, and a link to your Sample Ballot.
3. Below the heading, “Sample Ballot,” click on the letter/number to the right of the current Election date on the page with your registration profile. This will bring up a new page with your sample ballot.
https://www.ncvoter.org/your-sample-ballot/
Make your voice heard. Learn how to register to vote, find your polling place, and more.
https://www.nc.gov/living/voting
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