The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology". Tributes however whitewash the fact that Sims achieved his breakthroughs by experimenting on enslaved African American women. The names of all but three of these women are lost. In Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to these enslaved women.
The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology". Tributes however whitewash the fact that Sims achiev...
Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins. In Amreekiya, Lena Mahmoud deftly juggles two storylines, alternating between Isra's youth and her current life torn between cultures and trying to define herself.
Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and co...