Intersecting lives, intersecting health: Black/African American women's intersectionality and health through the prism of black/African American men's health

Theory and research on Black/African American women's health often neglects this reality: Black women's lives and health often intersect with that of the Black men in their lives. Black heterosexual and bisexual women live, work, socialize, worship and form romantic and sexual relationships in the same communities as Black men. Thus, intersectionality posits that multiple social identities at the micro level (i.e., intersections of race, gender, and SES) intersect with macro level structural factors (i.e., poverty, racism and sexism) to illustrate or produce disparate health outcomes underscores a critical need to advance knowledge about how social-structural factors yoke together the health of low-income Black men and women.