The term intersectionality was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, addressing the fact that black women
are met with a lot of systems of oppression all at once.
I grew up in a prodominently white neighborhood.
It was an amazing childhood, but I was often confused.
A lot of the kids would say like, why does your hair not move?
And then when I would go to visit my family, who is all black, they'd say why do you talk
like a white girl?
I first identified as queer in high school.
To explain my gender, and also to explain how I identify my politics about relationships
and about the world, an easy way to say to someone, I don't fit into your box.
I was diagnosed May 2014 with bilateral breast cancer.
That means two different types of breast cancer.
The next question that I asked was, am I going to die?
That's what went through my mind.
That is what's perpetuated about breast cancer and about illness, is that it's a death sentence.
As a black person, I have fears around the medical industry, just with the history that's
happened to our bodies in this country, and just distrust of doctors in general.
Some of you will never have to ponder the anti-black origins upon which gynecology was built.
From Betsey, Anarcha and Lucy, to Sarah Baartman's whole body and Henrietta Lacks' cervix.
So navigating the medical system and people saying things like, like oh, we're going to
have to tell, like your boyfriend or your husband, like that immediate assumption that
I was straight, was always startling for me.
Like that's what they were worried about, when I'm going there to check in to have a biopsy.
So when you have a double mastectomy, if you want reconstruction, which I've had, you have
to go to a plastic surgeon.
I asked, you know, what are the scars going to look like?
Because most of the pictures that I see when I google are white women.
And then when I came back, they were like, oh, we found this one image of a patient we
had several years ago.
So I was like, one image, in two years.
I just felt tired.
I was tired of not seeing myself in something so simple or something so major as breast
cancer, and I was tired of not seeing myself in sex education, and tired of not seeing
myself in universities, and work spaces, so a lot of my topless activism is not just to
show my breast cancer scars, it's also to place myself in a narrative where I'm often
times erased.
Not being defined by my body or my hair is freedom, cause then I can just do whatever
I want.
I wish someone on my journey would have told me more, black is beautiful.
I am Ericka Hart, I am 31 years old, and I am beautiful.
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