Lessons from Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals: Exploring the health of Black lesbian and bisexual women through the intersections of sex/gender, race, sexual identity, and socioeconomic status

Historically, Black lesbian and bisexual women have been invisible from much of the health literature. Yet, it is well documented in the empirical literature that racial discrimination, sex and gender discrimination, and heterosexism have deleterious health outcomes for people who are ethnic minority, women, or non-heterosexual. These findings raise the logical question of what the health challenges of Black lesbian and bisexual women are, for whom all of these forms of social inequality intersect hypothetically or in reality? This presentation will highlight the health of Black lesbian and bisexual women through the intersections of racism, heterosexism, sexism and classism.