Crush Lupus

Crush Crossover Campaign – Lupus

Lupus to me, now means more than a simple disease one can attract at any moment in their life. Lupus has allowed me to further educate myself on the plethora of challenges women of color have to face everyday but if you choose to ignore it will never come to light. Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your very own immune system fights and attacks off healthy tissues and organs in the body leading to further complications to the Skin, joints, muscles, kidneys, lungs, nerves system, and digestive system all together. According to National Library of Medicine ( National Center for Biotechnology Information), Women of African American ethnicity are more susceptible to the most common form of lupus than other groups of ethnicities men and woman included, affecting them primarily because they experience outcomes only they will experience in life ultimately leading to an increase of progression to the disease. Examples leading to the progression of the disease are caused by discrimination in common places such as employment, housing, and medical settings. It’s estimated the number of people living in the U.S. with lupus can range over 300,000+ and remains prevalent nearly 9x greater in woman than that of men and nearly 3x greater in African American woman than that of white woman with them suffering these complications on average 3-9 years earlier than them and dealing with complications to their cardiovascular system in 2-4x in greater numbers. Being as though I come from an African American woman and have been raised by them my own life this will directly effect me for the rest of my life and something I will always have to think of now and you will too.