From Gimmart Media, this is The Not.

I'm Brittany Lewis.

So I've been thinking a lot lately about health, specifically how our healthcare system fails

black women.

How we're so often dismissed and how our pain isn't taken seriously.

I think about Serena talking about her post-partum complications and Beyonce opening up about

her emergency c-section.

And for me personally, it's come up a lot just because, you know, getting older and going

to the doctor more, but it's hard to find doctors I can trust.

I mean, I just found a black woman OBGYN that I actually like in my early 30s.

And if I'm honest, it's hard to hear over and over again all the ways black women are

consistently overlooked.

Not just socially, politically, or in the workplace, but in life or death situations.

But recently, I listened to a story that actually made me feel hopeful because it really focused

on how one black woman listened closely to her own body and then made her doctors and

surgeons listen to.

The story I listened to is from a podcast called Bodies from KCRW.

In every episode, one person tries to solve a mystery about their own body, like why sex

is so painful or why hair would suddenly be growing on a woman's cheeks.

The episode I love follows a woman named Calalia.

He tries to figure out why her period is causing her so much pain.

By the end, I wanted every person who has a uterus or knows someone with a uterus, pretty

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