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May 12, 2025 89 mins

This week on The Audaci-Tea Podcast, your hosts Lisa, Sovereign, and Gwen dive into the infuriating reality of medical gaslighting, where women's symptoms are dismissed, downplayed, or misdiagnosed by healthcare providers. But first, in our Tea Time segment, we spill the tea on the latest headlines, including Trump’s executive order slashing funding for NPR and PBS, a breakdown of the SAVE Act and its threat to voter access, and looming economic impacts from shipping delays and mass layoffs at UPS.

In the main discussion, we explore how women, especially women of color, face systemic discrimination in healthcare, unpack the exploitative history of gynecology, and challenge the medical establishment’s paternalistic attitudes toward birth control, pain, and bodily autonomy. 

And finally, in our Feminist Herstory segment, we honor Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells were taken without consent and used to power decades of medical breakthroughs, reminding us how deeply racism is woven into the fabric of modern medicine.

🎧 This episode shines a light on the intersection of gender, race, and power in healthcare, and why we must stop apologizing for advocating for ourselves.

 

🎙️ Topics Discussed:

  • The cultural roots and modern rise of medical gaslighting
  • How women’s pain is ignored, minimized, or misdiagnosed
  • The racial disparities in healthcare and implicit bias
  • The dark origins of gynecology and stolen bodily autonomy
  • The weaponization of birth control and mistrust in relationships
  • Henrietta Lacks and the exploitation of Black women in medicine

 

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📚 This Week’s Recommendation: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 👉 Available here

 

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