workingitinportland:

FUCKIN HELL YEAH FUCK THAT RAPIST MISOGYNIST WHITE SUPREMACIST SON OF A GUN

I first read about Marion Sims in Medical Apartheid and he’s burning in hell right now. This article is on NPR, there’s a short column on him in the new Working It as well.

OMG YES SIMS WAS HORRIBLE AND SHOULD NEVER BE PRAISED.

(if you decide to learn more on this topic: MASSIVE trigger warninngs. You will probably run into vidid descriptions of horrifying sexual abuse and extreme torture of women of color. Because, ya know, he did that. )

(By the way, the statue is not destroyed entirely, it’s relocated to
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where Sims is buried. So if anyone has a hammer and some rage they still need to get out of their system…)