[5] Her poems and other writings have been published in literary magazines, journals and anthologies including but not limited to as Torch, Meridians[6], and Mythium, the latter which nominated her contribution for a Pushcart Prize.
Broadly, the collection is a poetic analysis of scientific racism and the evidence 19th century medical experimentation on black women that built the modern day practice of gynecology.
[4][7] Throughout the text Judd draws on her own experience with the medical industry, and the ways that she has personally experienced the dehumanization that she speaks of throughout her writing.
The collection alternates between the point of view and voice of a modern-day speaker, a black female researcher who finds herself confronting racist and sexist microaggressions in the face of a gynecological emergency, and the "ghost" voices of Anarcha Wescott, Joice Heth, Lucy Zimmerman, and Betsey Harris, the real life black female subjects of experimentation by J. Marion Sims, typically regarded as the father of modern-day gynecology.
[4][7][10] The collection also inhabits the voices of other historical black women who were subjected to experimentation and exploitation such as Saartjie Baartman and Henrietta Lacks.
"[4] On February 16, 2016, Judd, along with historian Vanessa Gamble, were guests on an edition of NPR's Hidden Brain Podcast titled "Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology"[12] where she read poems from Patient.