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Rafa Esparza - Billy

Acrylic on adobe, 2022

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Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her.

Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she’d needed two transfusions. She was anxious to get home to her young sons, but, according to a nurse’s notes, she was still “passing large clots the size of grapefruit.”

Hope dialed his mother, a former physician, who was unequivocal. “You need a D&C,” she told them, referring to dilation and curettage, a common procedure for first-trimester miscarriages and abortions. If a doctor could remove the remaining tissue from her uterus, the bleeding would end.

But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, Hope recalled. Hope trusted the doctor. Porsha took the pills, according to records, and the bleeding continued.

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A Lebanese woman in West Beirut celebrates her wedding during the 1996 Lebanon War.

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"A family" details of the murals inside the dining room of Casa Cuseni, Taormina, Sicily (1910) - Sir Frank William Brangwyn (British, 1867 - 1956) Casa Cuseni is a mansion in Taormina whose building was commissioned to Sir William Brangwyn by english painter Robert Hawthorn Kitson. Kitson lived as an expatriate in Taormina with his partner Carlo Silgato. In 1908, the couple de facto adopted and raised Francesco, an orphaned child found in the rubble of the devastating Messina earthquake. This mural is considered the first depiction of same-sex parenting in visual arts.

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Amadou Seck (Senegalese, 1950), Dialogue, 1984. Oil on canvas, 71.5 x 114 cm.

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The Rose, Nr4, by Hilma af Klint, 1907.

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“Sailor”, c.1970 by Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989). Greek modernist painter and set designer, known for his homerotic paintings of soldiers, sailors and nude male models. oil on panel

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David von Cöln (1689 - 1763)

Lilies in a Delft blue and white pot, 1727

National Museum, Stockholm

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Alice Coltrane

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Untei Sekine, Collection of small Rohdea japonica, (detail), Japan, 1832.jpg

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John Minton (British, 1917-1957)

Portrait of a Young Man Reclining, October 1951

Pen and ink on paper

Bonham's

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Scott Treleaven, The Likes of You and I (2013) Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, gouache, and collage on paper diptych, 49.25 x 37.25 inches ea.