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I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Confronting Medical Assault with A'magine Goddard

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jameela is joined by director, producer and sexuality educator, A'magine Goddard to discuss her award-winning new documentary 'At Your Cervix' that breaks the silence about the continuous violation of bodily autonomy for educational purposes. Jameela and A'magine discuss the history of gynecology and obstetrics, why non-consensual pelvic exams on patients under anesthesia must end along with the many gynecological teaching alternatives, and plenty more. A warning before listening, this episode discusses medical trauma and sexual assault. You can find more info on A’magine Goddard and her work on passing clearer medical consent laws at: Website: amaginenation.com Instagram: @sexualempowerment & @atyourcervixmovie Facebook: AtYourCervix Tiktok: @atyourcervixmovie For listeners of I Weigh there is a special screening of 'At Your Cervix' right now - atyourcervixmovie.com You can find transcripts from the show on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com Send what you 'weigh' to [email protected] Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Instagram, Youtube and TikTok for more!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of IWay with Jamila Jamil, a podcast against shame.

0:05.3

I hope you're well and thank you so much for so many lovely messages about my deeply

0:09.7

candid and personal episode of Ask Me Anything. I really did answer everything with as

0:16.0

much personal truth as possible and I appreciate how responsive you've all been.

0:21.8

So give that a listen if you want to just have a sort of one-on-one

0:25.8

chat with me in the car maybe. But generally you've just been such a dream and I'm so

0:31.3

happy that you're all so happy with the episodes.

0:33.7

This week is a very, a very intense subject, but one of the most important subjects I feel like

0:41.2

I've ever learned about, not just during the time of making this

0:44.4

podcast for almost four years. Wow. But ever. I had no idea that this thing was happening in the United States and it has possibly changed the rest of my life to learn about it now.

1:00.0

I was told to watch a film a few months ago called At Your Servix.

1:04.6

It is an award-winning documentary that exposes the hidden practice

1:09.7

of medical students learning to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized patients

1:14.9

without their consent. And we're not talking one or two cases, we're

1:21.7

talking thousands and thousands of cases of this for decades,

1:28.8

for decades in the United States of America.

1:32.1

And so my guest, Imagine Godard, has made this incredibly brave

1:37.2

documentary as a whistleblower who learned from the inside that this is what's going on and has now made it her life's purpose to bring

1:44.5

awareness that this is happening to people under anesthetic without their

1:49.7

consent and to help legislate against that happening because currently we don't even know

1:56.2

that this is happening we don't know what our rights are we don't know how to get

1:59.5

out of this happening to our bodies this is a violation against our bodies and speaking of

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