When it comes to fertility care, Latinas mistreated by Western doctors often turn to ancestral holistic medicine.
Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked De Los contributing columnist Alex Zaragoza to fill in. If you have not subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you can do so here. I was sitting in a glowing hot pink room lined with white leather thrones. On each seat was a hole topped with a toilet seat. I sat on one, bare as a plucked chicken, and felt a gentle fog from a heated pot of herbs as my nether regions were being steamed like a pork dumpling.
” Luz saw an OB-GYN at UCLA, a Latina doctor who she thought would treat her with more cultural understanding and compassion. Instead, the doctor, she said, was “cold and callous” and made her feel “stupid.” The fertility center where she underwent IVF treatments made her feel “like a number” and “in it for the cash.” Luz is no stranger to the woo-woo stuff many millennial Latinas partake in — limpias, sweat lodges, mushrooms, etc.
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