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Dr. Dorothy Kim
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Dr. Dorothy Kim

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Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist. She/her/hers.

Joined April 2012

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    1. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      Wonder Woman is striking down male doctors. In the original use--an issue of Sister: Los Angeles Women's Center from July 1973--it's showing women (pretty sure the original is unconsciously cisgendered, sigh) retaking control of their bodies by wielding specula on themselves.

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    2. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      Why does this matter? It was REALLY SUPER DISCOURAGED for women to do this, in weird bizarre and sometimes legal ways. Activist Carol Downer GOT ARRESTED for showing another woman how to use a speculum. In 1972. The year before that cover. (See: https://bust.com/sex/14327-the-secret-history-of-the-speculum-14327.html …)

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    3. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      Seeing Wonder Woman's medical speculum replaced by the journal is...interesting. The committee that named the journal was all male. We have hardly been the most inclusive field.

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    4. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      So the speculum being figured in the cartoon as liberation has been replaced by a traditional journal...except one that is now largely run by women. And women and enbies are now able to "wield" that speculum in our field, perhaps? But it's still being turned outwards, not in.

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    5. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      Why does the speculum still matter? Two things the field has NOT reckoned with:

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    6. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      1. People with uteruses generally encounter specula at least once a year, for exams. It's uncomfortable at best, painful at worst, and intensely awkward/embarrassing. We are on the table, being examined, by someone who may have been trained on UNCONSCIOUS, UNCONSENTING patients.

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    7. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      (Comfort, obviously, is not a consideration here. Or agency)

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    8. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      2. Where's this speculum from? It's the Sims speculum. The one Sims invented by performing brutal, excruciating and repeated experiments on enslaved Black women. Did the founders/namers know about the Sims speculum? I *guarantee* you they did.

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    9. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      So we've named our most prestigious medievalist journal after a medical instrument with a ghastly, racist history, one that still reminds many in the field of physical pain and emotional discomfort--while many of our dudes don't even realize it's awkward.

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    10. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019

      And we have never yet addressed the ways that the racist, sexist legacy of the speculum--who's doing the looking, who's an object to be examined, whose consent matters, whose personhood counts--intertwines with the racist histories embedded in medieval studies.

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      Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 8 Mar 2019
      Replying to @annawaymack

      You should post a shorter piece that we can circulate.

      10:50 AM - 8 Mar 2019
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        2. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019
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          I should finish my dissertation 😝

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        3. Anna Fore Waymack‏ @annawaymack 8 Mar 2019
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          I have most of the notes, one book left I should go thru, and then I'll need one hissy-fit sort of day.

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