Endometriosis is so deeply aligned with whiteness that Black women with pelvic pain have for decades been consistently misdiagnosed as having pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which is caused by sexually transmitted infections.240 The emergence of PID as a catchall for Black gynecological problems confirmed a bias that society had held since the antebellum era: that Black women were sex-crazed “jezebels” (a bias has also been used to justify sexual violence against Black women).241 We haven’t escaped the racism sown into Black women’s gynecological care. In fact, PID misdiagnosis in Black
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