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Vulva La Revolution explores the intersection between science, culture and medicine to explain the phenomenon of medical gaslighting that women navigating the healthcare system experience. As one of six doctors in the world that specializes in addressing the sexual health issues of ALL genders, Dr. Maria Uloko is starting a sexual health revolution – will you join her?

Synopsis

This documentary dissects in grave detail the historical roadmap of women’s health care and how it presents today in the difficulty with patients accessing care and appropriate treatment. We will explore the history of medicine as it relates to female sexuality and health. Our goal is to tie sexual health to the larger narrative of how women access healthcare is a public health crisis hiding in plain sight. We’ll explore the intersection between science, culture and medicine to explain the phenomenon of medical gaslighting that women navigating the healthcare system experience.

Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is recognized as a common medical problem across all age groups. The National Health and Social Life Survey found that sexual dysfunction is more prevalent in patients assigned female at birth (43%) than in patients assigned male at birth (31%) 3 FSD is defined as issues with pain with sex, desire, arousal, or orgasm and menopause. People affected by FSD are at high rates of mental and relational distress with a significant detriment to their quality of life. We look into the why of this phenomenon and the fact that FSD is a markedly understudied, underfunded and under-resourced field that is actively killing women today. This documentary will bring to light how history, policy and scientific discovery all align and how it has directly affected women’s access to life enhancing and also life saving care.

The focus of the documentary will be predominantly related to sexual health concerns but this ties deeply into the larger context of being a woman navigating the healthcare field. We will delve into how the lines of science blur with popular culture and society by also including authors, journalists, historians, sociologists, other notable sexual medicine experts and artists and their relation to medicine and being a woman in the system.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Meredith Yinger – Director/Producer
Meredith Yinger tells the untold. She is a Film Director, Documentarian, and Owner of She TV Media – a female-led, full service video and virtual event production company. Based in Los Angeles, she carries additional titles of bestselling author, producer, host, and voiceover artist. She is dedicated to bringing overlooked stories to life through the magic of film. Meredith eagerly champions those who have untold stories to share through her documentaries, interviews with breakthrough experts, and collaborations with established and aspiring artists. The Madams – a She TV Media TV Pilot that Meredith directed – was recognized and awarded at the Cannes Indies Cinema Awards Festival, the Venice Shorts Festival, and the Women Filmmakers from IndieFest. Meredith is currently in Post-production on her first feature length documentary entitled Scars Unseen – which is about triumph of the human spirit in domestic violence cases – and will premiere in the festival circuit in early 2024.

Dr. Maria Uloko – Director/Producer
Dr. Maria Uloko is an international award-winning researcher on vulvar health including her groundbreaking work on clitoral anatomy, and former director of the first vulvar sexual health urology clinic affiliated with an academic center in the US. She is considered an international leader in the field of female sexual health due to her spirit of innovation and unique approach to the field including being one of 6 urologists in the world with her training. She has been featured in NYT, Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Stories, Yahoo news for her work and advocacy. She serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Urology and the female sexual health editor for the International Society of Sexual Medicine Video Journal. Her emphasis of research is on healthcare disparities, defining vulvar anatomy and physiology, the association between tissue health and disease (i.e chronic pelvic pain and chronic UTI), healthcare innovation, patient advocacy, and education.

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