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Joselyn and Lauren talk about skincare. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Enjoy.

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It’s My Body My Choice versus bros with scalpels, and dudes your days are numbered. Enjoy.

Links from the episode:

Kim Bowles’ story in Cosmo: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a22984204/breast-cancer-survivors-mastectomy-sexism/

Serena Williams’ story in Vogue: https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018

Study showing disparity in mortality rates between black and white breast cancer patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603001/

American Cancer Society reporting 40% higher mortality rate in black women with breast cancer: https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/cancer-facts-and-figures-for-african-americans/cancer-facts-and-figures-for-african-americans-2019-2021.pdf

Post with link to Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) study: https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/05/are-we-practicing-medical-misogyny.html

Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw’s TED Talk on Intersectionality: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

Vox article talking to Kimberle Crenshaw about Intersectionality: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

Henrietta Lacks article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250449-genetic-privacy-we-must-learn-from-the-story-of-henrietta-lacks/

Disturbing history of medical “research” on African Americans: https://time.com/4746297/henrietta-lacks-movie-history-research-oprah/

Qualitative study on mistrust of medical research participation among members of the black community:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354806/

Article on male bias in medical trials:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/13/the-female-problem-male-bias-in-medical-trials

Female physicians get paid less: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2532788

Female physicians receive harsher performance evaluations: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/9/5/577/201284/Gender-Differences-in-Attending-Physicians

This physician mansplaining how women physicians can handle being mistaken for nurses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7004221/

Lynfa Stroud, MD MEd, handing that mansplaining male physician’s ass back to him in the most devastatingly eloquent way (he died instantly): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101171/

Article about Dr. Tamika Cross trying to convince a Delta flight attendant that she is, indeed, a physician: https://www.statnews.com/2016/10/15/black-woman-doctor-racism/

Even our AI is sexist: https://www.comicsands.com/dora-vargha-google-translate-sexism-2651178199.html?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=stories&utm_campaign=GTAK

Retracted study rating attractiveness of women with rectovaginal endometriosis: https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(12)02127-9/pdf

Medical asshats defending their sexist study of the attractiveness of women with rectovaginal endometriosis: https://pubpeer.com/publications/37BE50783AF3614F0698A38AA42B31#5

And Dr. Jen Gunter is not fucking having it: https://www.croakey.org/the-unattractive-truth-about-misogyny-in-medicine-and-medical-research/