ABSTRACT
A central feature of Black feminist scholarship is the foregrounding of the lived experiences of Black women. Black women's unique perspectival perceptions will result in varied accounts of oppression: some accounts of oppression may be similar and consistent while others may be contradictory. Nonetheless, an intersectional analysis that focuses only on Black women's oppression can fail to recognize Jimmy's potential vulnerabilities as well. For Keisha, coming to terms with her HIV status was a struggle, in part because of her experiences with institutions in which she felt stigmatized and isolated. In revisiting the story of a young Black woman living with HIV, the authors made sense of the analytical dilemma that when Black women talk about their experiences of health, they rarely point to racism and sexism as important factors in their health outcomes.
