Dominique Christina - Anarcha Speaks
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Sims wrote his legacy of healing in the blood of enslaved Black women who had no choice but to surrender to his scalpel and thread, who endured his harrowing research only to be relegated to the footnotes of history. 800 dollar mule 800 dollar mule that what massa say over the loud i make wit blood. Dominique Christina plunges deep into a cauldron of searing ancestral voices to give us this arsenal of poems, voices, testimonies, and dreams that have been waiting to stretch and wail to us in this twenty-first century. She brings us the story of Anarcha, thought to be one of the main subjects of Marion Simss bloody, painful experiments that cemented his reputation in the field of gynecology. Anarcha and eleven other slave women were Simss subjectstheir bodies volunteered by their masters. massa yellin bout: what us gon do wit a nigga gal caint keep her own water and 800 dollar mule! i paid 800 dollars for this mule for what? Branded expendable by virtue of their gender and race, Sims also believed these qualities rendered Black women impervious to pain.
Anarcha and her fellow subjects bore the price of scientific progress with stitch after painful stitch at the core of their beings. Sims subjected Anarcha to thirteen experimental surgeriesall without anestheticto perfect his treatment of vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas. doctor dont do slaving like regular folkhe built soft, like somethin younghe dont yell much/ always readinput his fingers in you like nothinpush on yo stomach/ make you squatthen write it down. In these poems, we witness the poet weaving in and out of the most intimate injuries with inquiries in search of answers only the body can provide. From fertility to pregnancy, from delivery to debridement, Dominique Christina takes us beyond the mere medical witness of these womens bodies and into their tapestry of dream and desire. With masterful use of image and an ear for language that haunts and glows in poem after poem, the poet has delivered us from one century to another in conversation with the spirit of Anarcha. And when we read her story, of forced labor and torturous experiments that resulted in gynecological treatments still in practice, we are elegantly and ruthlessly reminded of gender and racial inequities that dog our nation to this day.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are three to four times more likely to die of pregnancy or delivery complications than white women. This poets ability to capture voices from the past that ring true to the present is a gift that we need to listen to carefully today. Not only because the voices bring urgent parable and insight from the frontline between degradation and spirit in the nineteenth century but also because of the richness, depth, and uncompromising humanity with which these poems are written and this singular story is told. A story that, in its telling, lets us know in no uncertain terms: heaven must be insurrection. TYEHIMBA JESS Anarcha SpeaksSECTION I
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