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Melissa Harris-Lacewell is a Princeton professor and a political pundit. She also has fibroids, and last month Harris-Lacewell had a hysterectomy. Fibroids are "growths in the uterus that appear during the reproductive years," as they're described in this companion piece to Lacewell's article on the Root.com. That description makes fibroids sound relatively benign, but the truth of the matter is that for Lacewell and many other African American women, fibroids can mean pain and massive blood loss, and because not many people talk about them, fibroids can evoke feelings of shame. "'Woman troubles' are not polite conversation," Harris-Lacewell writes. "Fibroid symptoms can be degrading and embarrassing. The possibility of losing our reproductive capacity makes fibroids hard to confront. But our silence has real consequences...Because we don't talk about it in public, there is little pressure from black communities on the medical establishment to find better alternatives for alleviating our suffering." More »
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