How My Body Became a Battleground: ADHD, Fibroids, and the Cumulative Harm of Being Queer, Brown, and Migrant
In 2022, my body collapsed under decades of trauma—fibroids, PTSD, and a shattered jaw from paternal violence. As a queer, brown migrant in the Netherlands, I faced medical gaslighting, isolation, and systemic barriers. Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s stress model explains how chronic cortisol exposure ravaged my health, while Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory reveals how my identities amplified harm. Dutch bureaucracy deepened the crisis: debt, language barriers, and racism trapped me in cycles of pain. Yet survival came through therapy, community, and writing. This is not just my story—it’s proof that trauma is biological, political, and collective. To systems that tried to erase me: I am still here, writing myself into existence.