At Your Cervix is the first documentary to expose the little-known practice of the non-consensual use of patients as practice dummies by the American medical education system. In an era when conversations about consent, reproductive justice and racial justice are paramount, it shines a light on the use of unconscious patients by medical students to practice pelvic examinations without the knowledge or consent of those patients.

The film goes inside OB/GYN medical education programmes and looks at the way their racist and sexist legacy of exploitation has created a culture of non-consent in gynecology. Starting with the inception of the OB/GYN profession, whose founder, Dr Marion Sims, experimented on vulnerable, enslaved Black women, this oppressive legacy continues. It is still commonplace for medical students to learn how to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized patients during surgery without their knowledge or consent.

At Your Cervix chronicles these unethical teaching practices and explores how they relate to the fact that most patients experience pelvic exams as painful, disempowering and re traumatizing. These practices persist despite repeated news exposés and the fact that a more ethical, effective and empowering teaching method is well-established.

Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTAs) are trained lay-people who use their own bodies to teach medical students the breast and pelvic exam, simultaneously becoming both consenting patient and clinical instructor. Through the eyes of a queer GTA, At Your Cervix shows us how gynecology - and medicine in general - could be empowering and transparent, with medical students learning side-by-side with trained teachers and consenting patients