Intersected

Intersected

Someone I love required abdominal surgery at birth lending to a large transverse incision below his chest.

Many years later additional surgical repairs were in order replicating a lengthy longitudinal wound that intersected the prior one, and designated his torso with a “T.”

This intersection was a weak spot that decades later would be attributed to severe pain, loss of oxygen to the cells in the area, and deposited harrowing non-negotiable options that had no successful guarantees.

Intersectionality bears similar foreboding circumstances as the term peers into analyzing the complex way that the many aspects of people’s identity overlap.

Any minority position can be detrimental, but when several are lumped together, it can spiral into mental health issues, and even increase the risk of suicide by more than double.

This is nothing to take lightly as anything outside of being a white male, leaves you in the lurch as less than, not as important, not an equal.

Women who encompass the many shades of color are significantly at risk.

Poverty displaces their average even more, and if she has a sexual orientation that strays from the accepted norm or expresses transgender tones, her scores elevate exponentially for discrimination, harassment, and self-harm, which are choreographed by interconnected social categorizations that for the most part are beyond her control.

These manmade boundaries are toxic, and contribute to unique stressors, needs, social stigmas, and challenges faced by multiple marginalized minorities, which can undermine them financially, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.

What would Jesus do? Hint: He didn’t throw a stone.

Weak spots can be fixed, but it takes a village. How can you help?

~ ”But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,”’ 2 Corinthians 12:9. ~

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