With My Speculum I Am Powerful: Find Your Cervix Workshop – Led By A’magine
April 13, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Greenwood Social Hall
1750 Belleview Ave. Second Floor
Kansas City
MO
64108
You will experience a demonstration of how to find your own cervix using a speculum, and then have the opportunity to find your own cervix with guidance and support. It is an empowering, radical act to take the speculum into your own hands and find and look at your own cervix. For too long, our sexual agency has been co-opted, and our medical power has been minimized. Knowing your own body–inside and out–is essential to maintaining optimal health and well-being and in developing the confidence to know that you are the authority of your own body. In this tenderly held space, you will get to bear witness to others and yourself in a new way. There is no pressure–you choose at what level you wish to engage. You get to create the privacy you need, and can also do your self-exam with others as witnesses. You will walk away with new knowledge and wonder about your own body and its capabilities and with a new understanding of how to advocate for yourself in your healthcare. This can be a joy-filled, insightful experience.
About A’magine
A’magine has been teaching people to find cervixes for over 20 years. She trained as a Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA) and worked for ten years with medical and nursing students at every major medical institution in NYC, including Columbia, NYU, Cornell, Einstein, SUNY Downstate, among others. She has taught workshops across the US for women who are ready to take the speculum into their own hands and find their cervixes. She has been working on a documentary chronicling this work for the last 18 years, tying in the work of GTAs with the women’s health movement with a mission to end the unethical ways students of medicine and nursing learn to do pelvic exams. GTA programs, as Lila Wallis, MD of Cornell Medical states, “is the only rational way to teach pelvic exams.” At Your Cervix will shine a light on this little-known work and the importance of teaching future medical providers to respect women’s bodies, vaginas, and patient consent. Please Bring:
- robe or sarong
- a flashlight or small standing light
- a stand-up (preferably) or hand-held mirror
- water bottle
- journal and pen, if you wish