“The medical system underfunds medical research into diseases affecting womxn, resulting in gender disparity and extreme
discrimination, confining sick bodies to a state of total disinterest in the eyes of the dominant. The journey of endometriosis is deeply individual, lacking any sense of collectivity. The urgency is then to find ways to organise ourselves in order to avoid the individualisation of each persons suffering from endometriosis, resulting into an extreme isolation and misunderstanding of this chronic disease. How can we find a way to collectively protect ourselves from any kind of violences that results from the medical environment? People with endometriosis suffer from chronic pain primarily due to the lack of recognition and care within the medical system, leading to the isolation and the individualisation of each person’s experience. I argue that the lack of medical research and care for endometriosis causes harmful isolation of those affected by the disease, however, endo collective protection can serve as a strategy to reorganise pain management by integrating holistic practices alongside the existing medical knowledge. I aim to understand the relationship I have with the pain and living conditions of people suffering from endometriosis, and through this text, I hope to inspire you too.”