Words matter: It’s time to retire ‘hysterectomy’
At least some members of the medical profession are advocating for a change in terminology.
Colette Hyman teaches U.S. history at Winona State University.
At least some members of the medical profession are advocating for a change in terminology.
What better way to honor the work of indigenous leaders like Peggy Flanagan and Kate Beane than to use our voices to support theirs?
As much as we would like to see current family-separation policy as the work of a blatantly white-supremacist, xenophobic administration, it follows a long history of family-separation practice and policy.
Our society normalizes this violence when perpetrators go unpunished, when bystanders remain silent, and when victims are shamed, ridiculed, and threatened into silence.
* Please read before republishing *
We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license as long as you follow our republishing guidelines. See our full republication guidelines for more information.
To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost.
If you have questions, email editors@minnpost.com.
— The Editors
By Colette Hyman
Jan. 25, 2018