KC Oasis Sunday Gathering – Featured speaker: Niki Aktipis, “Intersectionality: Science and Its Historical Impact on Black Bodies”
UMKC Royall Hall, Room 111 800 E. 52nd St, Kansas City, MOMusical guest: Wyatt West (https://www.facebook.com/wyattwestmusic) Community moment: TBA Featured speaker: Niki Aktipis, "Intersectionality: Science and Its Historical Impact on Black Bodies" Have you ever heard the name Henrietta Lacks? Do you know what happened in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment? Were you ever taught about how gynecological practices were created? Why does any of this matter? In this presentation we will discuss the implications of scientific discoveries and their impact on Black bodies. Many of the medical scientific breakthroughs that have saved countless lives have a dark history rooted in inequality and, in some areas, unequivocally inhumane. Within the U.S. education...