In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month (SAAPM) the award-winning documentary, At Your Cervix will be screening online for one week only: April 23 - May 1. This film follows my friend, sexuality educator, activist and filmmaker A’magine as she exposes the hidden practice of medical students learning to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Through interviews with students, patients, doctors, midwives, politicians and advocates, At Your Cervix offers compelling and often deeply emotional testimony as to why nonconsensual and unethical pelvic exams on patients under anesthesia must end.
April 30th at 5pm PST/8pm EST, to close out the screening week, there will be a live panel of experts to delve into the topics further. The link to join is provided to ticket holders after purchase. This is a limited run so catch the film while you can!
Purchase tickets here at www.AtYourCervixMovie.com
About the film
Award-winning film, At Your Cervix, follows sexuality educator, activist and filmmaker A’magine on her journey to expose the unethical and often traumatic ways medical students are taught to perform pelvic exams. Interviews with students, patients, doctors, midwives, politicians and advocates offer compelling and often deeply emotional testimony as to why unethical non-consensual pelvic exams on patients under anesthesia must end.
Medical students are often taught to perform or perfect pelvic exams by “practicing” on anesthetized patients before surgery without their consent, a direct result of the racist, misogynist and violent history of gynecology. The film goes inside medical schools and hospitals, following students as they try to reconcile their personal ethics with the abusive learning methods they encounter.
The film challenges the existence of this egregious practice by highlighting an ethical and effective way of teaching the pelvic exam that’s been in existence for over 40 years in which the “patient” herself is the teacher.In a time when we are reckoning with many issues around patient rights and bodily autonomy, this is a timely and compelling issue, depicted for the first time in a film.