The F Word: Fibroid Stories delves into the real-life struggles of women&nbsp;affected by fibroids, featuring medical experts, researchers, and advocates who are working toward better solutions. Through intimate interviews and expert analysis we highlight the need for improved healthcare and support.

F Word Documentary

A groundbreaking documentary shedding light on the silent epidemic fibroids in women of color, exposing causes, personal stories, and solutions for better treatment and awareness.

Luxury wellness entrepreneur WRYN WRIGHT NEGRON has manifested all her dreams except having a biological baby with her “Mr. Right,” GUY NEGRON.
After reproductive challenges rupture their picture-perfect life, Wryn discovers that Guy and her forever best friend, CREE BOWEN, concealed Cree’s unwanted pregnancy—blurring the boundaries of the threesome’s bond.
When Wryn finally conceives, her baby implants on a fibroid and eventually loses the battle for blood, necessitating a D&C that causes her to hemorrhage and results in an emergency hysterectomy. Yet she refuses to be a childless mother and remains committed to biological motherhood by any means necessary—pursuing either a surrogate or a womb transplant to carry their frozen embryos. 
Despite Wryn’s relentless quest for a baby with their DNA, Guy suggests adoption, fearing he could become a widowed father. Then Cree flips the script with an astonishing pronouncement: The baby she is carrying is Wryn’s and Guy’s. 
Is Cree selflessly offering them her unborn child—or revealing that Guy is the father? With motherhood suddenly within reach, how far will Wryn go—and will it cost her all she has spent her life actualizing?

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Following a traumatic loss and emergency hysterectomy, a woman's relentless pursuit of biological motherhood is shattered when a close friend reveals a secret about her unborn child.

Women with the Issue of Blood is a call to action rooted in faith, public health, and the urgent need to center Black women and girls in women’s health research. The title of the film was inspired by the biblical account of the woman with the issue of blood, whose story appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Although each Gospel offers a different perspective, the woman is never given a name. She is primarily remembered for her bleeding and for the moment Jesus healed her. Yet her story is about more than a miracle. For twelve years, she lived with a chronic condition that affected her body, finances, relationships, and place within her community. While others may have defined her by her illness, Jesus recognized her as a whole person and called her “Daughter.”That moment of recognition sits at the heart of this film. Through medical anthropology and historical analysis, Women with the Issue of Blood explores how gynecological conditions have existed across generations, while women’s pain and reproductive health concerns have often been misunderstood, dismissed, or inadequately studied. These failures remain persistent within the United States and disproportionately affect African American and Black women and girls. The film brings together personal testimonies and subject-matter expert commentary to examine the connections among epigenetics, preconception health, the troubling history of gynecology and women’s health research, systemic racism, medical gaslighting, and present-day disparities in care. By placing lived experience alongside scientific and historical evidence, the film challenges audiences to see these women not simply as patients, diagnoses, or statistics, but as individuals whose voices, bodies, and futures matter.

Women with the Issue of Blood

Parallel to the unnamed biblical figure, this documentary exposes historical neglect and advocates for equity in Black women's gynecological research and healthcare.

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