In 1947, the UN proposed partitioning Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. Violence breaks out as Zionist militias attack Palestinian towns.

In 1945, Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer, passed of cancer. Her cell tissues were harvested against her will. In the scientific community, she's known as the HeLa human cell line.

From 1935 to 1941, members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a sorority of Black college women, set up mobile clinics on Mississippi plantations to provide basic health screenings, education, and treatment.

After graduating from Boston City Hospital in 1927, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail works as a nurse at the Indian Hospital on the reservation. She raises objections to the abuse Crow patients receive from white doctors, including frequent sterilization of Crow women without their knowledge.

In 1924, Carrie Buck, a 17 year old unwed mother was diagnosed as “feebleminded” and was the first person to be sterilized under Virginia’s 1924 Eugenical Sterilization Act.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Black queer women build social networks in northern cities like New York and Chicago. Known as “lady lovers,” they meet, drink, and dance at speakeasies and parties. A popular entertainer included Gladys Bentley.

From 1920s to 1930s, large-scale Jewish immigration to Palestine increases tensions with the Palestinian population, leading to riots and violence.

In 1928, the pap smear was invented, a test to check for cervical cancer. By 1941, cervical cancer went from the #1 killer for people with uteruses to now 14k cases/year.

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration pledges British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine under British control.

In 1916, Margaret Sanger established the American Birth Control League, currently Planned Parenthood Federation of America. While the creation and promotion of birth control allowed for more sexual agency, it was also tested on Puerto Rican women and used for population and eugenics purposes in Black and brown communities.

In 1916, Angelina Weld Grimke writes Rachel, a play arguing that healthy and joyful Black motherhood is impossible in a racist society. In response to The Birth of a Nation, this play centers Black women in the story, and covers themes of kinship, motherhood, and lynching.

In 1916, a secret treaty between the UK, France, and Russian empires for the partition of the Ottoman Empire

In 1892, after three of Ida B Well’s friends were lynched, she dedicated her life to exposing the truth about lynching. Using the Black community newspaper, The Free Speech, she investigated every lynching she heard about.

In 1875, the entry of Chinese women was prohibited, signaling the end of open borders. Additionally, any woman who wanted to immigrate to the United States from Asia had to prove to immigration officers that she was not a prostitute.

At the end of the Civil War, president of the American Medical Association leads a campaign discouraging white women from asserting reproductive autonomy. As enslaved Africans are freed as as immigration increases from Asia and Mexico, he argues that white women practicing abortion and birth control are committing “race suicide,” the foundations for replacement theory.

In 1859, the Landing of Clotilde in Mobile, Alabama led to intense reproductive violence, including children being ripped from mothers, forced abortions, forced childcare for owner's children, poor maternal health. There was no informed consent.

From 1845 to 1849, Dr. James Marion Sims named the "father of modern gynecology” purchased and used enslaved African women for gynecological research experiments.

From 1840 to 1960, the occupation and control in Somalia by the British and Italians.

From 1526 to 1867, European slave traders transported enslaved Africans, mainly from West Africa, to the Americas. In 1619, the first recorded enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia.

Sakina (SA) was a young child at Karbala who witnessed unimaginable violence and the massacre of her father Imam Husayn (AS).