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For generations, Black women with debilitating pelvic pain have been dismissed and disregarded. They have been told it’s just cramps or to take Ibuprofen. They have been instructed to lose weight, eat better, or reduce their stress. They have been labeled as dramatic or difficult. Their pain has been attributed to everything, but what
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