![]() ![]() This moment in The Cancer Journals reinforces a central line of thinking in black feminist thought that “woman” is a racial as well as a gender category, historically constructed on the exploitation, destruction, hyper-sexualization, and ungendering of black women’s bodies resulting from historical violences such as the reproductive economy of chattel slavery and post-emancipation characterizations of black women as existing for the caretaking of or sexual exploitation by whites. So that means we are either immortal or born to die and no note taken, un-women”. ![]() In an entry near the beginning of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals (1980), Lorde describes her embodied experiences of diagnosis, pain, mastectomy, and hospitalization as directly connected to the intersectionality of racial and gender oppressions when she writes, “ The blood of black women sloshes from coast to coast and Daly says race is of no concern to women. ![]()
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