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Gender Friday: Pain and Prejudice

The department of Gender Studies FHS UK cordially invites all students, both Czech and international, alumni, teachers and friends to another session of a regular and informal meeting series entitled Gender Fridays.

The goal of the Gender Fridays project is an active building of a widely conceived departmental feminist community and creating an informal, positive and safe spacetime for regular meetings of all people both closely and broadly connected to the department of GS.

Pain and Prejudice

Friday, January 10 at 7pm

Café Therapy (Školská 1267/30, Prague 1)

Have you ever been misdiagnosed just because your illness is exclusively connected to female reproductive system? How much do you know about endometriosis? How should we talk about menstruation and menopause? Those are the questions the author Gabrielle Jasckon is asking in her book Pain and Prejudice. Let´s talk about medical dismissal of women´s pain (or those with female reproductive organs), about chronical illnessess we are facing, gender bias in medical research or common ignorance towards the politics of pain.

Your personal experience is more than welcome, especially the one not covered in the book of Gabrielle Jackson (ie. trans*, intersectional experience etc.).