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Centuries of exploiting science and medicine to justify horrors, from slavery and pseudoscientific diagnoses to the misuse of Tasers, highlight the persistence of biases and the urgent need for change.

In 2022 Griffin revealed her dissatisfaction with treatment she received for lung cancer, saying she wished shed had "chemo/radiation instead of surgery."

Shackles come in many forms - a WW commentary By Harmony Rodriguez posted on May 18, 2021 The shackling of incarcerated workers and other members of our class is a heinous crime against humanity. As committed communists, we have to fight to end the conditions of their incarceration. There is another form of shackling:  psychiatric shackling. It is used against the mentally ill or those suspected of mental illness.  It is the use of psychosurgery (lobotomies), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)...

Medical Racism Was Meant to Hurt Black Women—And It Does What is a lived experience for many Black women is only being talked about by the mainstream in recent weeks. Decades of catalogued data and research shows that the medical industry willfully withholds lifesaving information and treatments from Black women at nearly every engagement throughout their lives. I use the term “willfully” to describe this phenomenon because there is nothing preventing medical professionals from doing thei...