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“What have I got to lose?” Hunger strikes and protests at Yarl’s Wood detention centre – New Statesman

“What have I got to lose?” Hunger strikes and protests at Yarl’s Wood detention centre – New Statesman

by Sarah Graham | Feb 10, 2016

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Yesterday the Department of Health & Social Care shared the vision document for their new Women’s Health Strategy, which is due to be published in full next spring. I hadn’t really planned on getting much real work done on my last day before mat leave, but @clairecohen1 asked so nicely and this felt like a fitting note to go out on… Here are the highlights and you can read in full at the link in my bio 🔗
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📚‘It was useful to dismiss us - to tell us we were trouble, rather than change the system we were troubling.’
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🧵A quote (about period poverty and menstrual shame) on the latest issue of medical journal The Lancet reads: “Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.” But it really shouldn’t be this hard to talk about medical misogyny in a genuinely inclusive and useful way.

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