The Great Health Reset: How the System Fails Women of Colour
"Educating and empowering women and girls and providing family planning information enables more people to choose the size of their families." — Dame Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist.
Health is not just about biology — it is deeply tied to economics, anthropology and systemic structures that dictate who thrives and who struggles. The current health crisis in the U.S. is not simply an issue of personal choice; it is a result of a rigged system where profit trumps well-being and marginalised communities — particularly women of colour — bear the brunt of this reality.
The Legacy of Inequity
From an anthropological perspective, health disparities among women of colour are deeply rooted in historical and cultural oppression. The medical system has long treated Black, Indigenous and Latina women as experimental subjects, from the exploitation of Black women in gynaecology by J. Marion Sims to…