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On the Intersectionality of Womanhood, Blackness, and Sexual Assault
Being a Black woman is more complex than it has to be
It’s Women’s History Month, and, as per usual, we womenfolk have lots to discuss.
Being a woman in America is presently and simultaneously an incredibly liberating and terrifying experience.
On the one hand, the limit’s the sky, right? Although women are still very much oppressed all across the globe, this country has afforded us far more opportunities and freedoms than most.
We are the women who want but don’t necessarily need men — or anyone, for that matter. You know, technically speaking.
On the other hand, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Allow me to adorn my sociological hat and explore a few facts and figures.
*Trigger Warning*
Per the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (or RAINN), “1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.”
However, when you delve a little deeper, things become all the more troubling.
Here are a few of the stats I find especially triggering:
- For every black woman who reports rape, at least 15 black women do…
