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Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

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Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

The Bougie Aunt | Published 10:00 a.m. E.T. August 07, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES/WOMEN WHO ARE RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE *For this article, I will be referring to Africans, African Americans, Blacks, etc. all under the collective term of ‘Black’. Otherwise, it will be confusing trying to explain all the nuances in each. And, this is not the article for that discussion.* HOW THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT IS NEGLECTING BLACK WOMEN The Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM) has contributed to an increased awareness of how Black lives are being negatively affected by their needs being not catered to or met. The movement was able to gain great traction within these past months because of the pandemic allowing more peop...

Sex Trafficking Is Not One-Dimensional

The Bougie Aunt | Published 9:00 a.m. E.T. August 01, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS! Human trafficking is a horrible, disturbing activity that disrupts and stains a victim for their entire life. The links (paid links) I posted support organizations that empower victims of human trafficking. It helps them take back the power they have lost over their own life. I searched for products that I will be buying as well to guarantee the authenticity of me promoting them. But either way, if you click on the links, you will be helping rid this world of human trafficking. Enjoy the rest of the article! WORLD HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY Two days ago, July 30, was World Human Trafficking Awareness Day. A...

Juneteenth: An Uncelebrated Holiday

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 a.m. E.T. June 19, 2020 The year is 1863, you are an African-American slave, and President Abraham Lincoln just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. You are ecstatic because that automatically means you and your other slave companions are all released from the bonds of slavery, right? No, you are completely wrong. But I can reason why, as the Emancipation Proclamation is often misunderstood, and consequently, taught wrong in schools. Since the Eurocentric narrative shapes the United States’s history of slavery to seem like a linear path where the starting point is the Transatlantic Slave Trade and cuts off immediately after Martin Luther King Jr. had his Kumbaya moment (that has increasingly become more whitewashed as the years pass), the...