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| pronouns=[[she/her]] and [[they/them]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ihartericka/ Instagram bio] accessed 6 Oct 2020</ref> | | pronouns=[[she/her]] and [[they/them]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ihartericka/ Instagram bio] accessed 6 Oct 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230709154920/https://www.instagram.com/ihartericka/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | ||
| gender=[[nonbinary]] [[femme]]<ref name="Finley">{{Cite web |title=Ericka Hart Is On A Journey To Dismantle Medical Racism |last=Finley |first=Taryn |work=HuffPost |date=February 8, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hbm-ericka-hart_n_5c3f4ce4e4b0e0baf5436b3b}}</ref><ref name="Sonoma">{{Cite web |title=Ericka Hart’s Mission: To Break Breast Cancer’s Connotation With Cis Women |last=Sonoma |first=Serena |work=them. |date=October 1, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/ericka-hart-ralph-lauren-pink-pony-initiative }}</ref> | | gender=[[nonbinary]] [[femme]]<ref name="Finley">{{Cite web |title=Ericka Hart Is On A Journey To Dismantle Medical Racism |last=Finley |first=Taryn |work=HuffPost |date=February 8, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hbm-ericka-hart_n_5c3f4ce4e4b0e0baf5436b3b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128141920/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hbm-ericka-hart_n_5c3f4ce4e4b0e0baf5436b3b |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Sonoma">{{Cite web |title=Ericka Hart’s Mission: To Break Breast Cancer’s Connotation With Cis Women |last=Sonoma |first=Serena |work=them. |date=October 1, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/ericka-hart-ralph-lauren-pink-pony-initiative |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621042303/https://www.them.us/story/ericka-hart-ralph-lauren-pink-pony-initiative |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
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'''Ericka Hart''' is an activist and sexuality educator. They received a Master's Degree in Education in Sexuality from Widener University.<ref name="Fluker">{{Cite web |title=How This Sex Educator And Breast Cancer-Warrior Practices Activism And Self-Care |last=Fluker |first=Dominique |work=Forbes |date=June 11, 2018 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2018/06/11/erickahart/#5e85d1a0502b}}</ref> | '''Ericka Hart''' is an activist and sexuality educator. They received a Master's Degree in Education in Sexuality from Widener University.<ref name="Fluker">{{Cite web |title=How This Sex Educator And Breast Cancer-Warrior Practices Activism And Self-Care |last=Fluker |first=Dominique |work=Forbes |date=June 11, 2018 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2018/06/11/erickahart/#5e85d1a0502b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930184339/https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2018/06/11/erickahart/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
She was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in 2014 and underwent a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Since then, they have gone topless during many public appearances in order to raise breast cancer awareness, especially for [[LGBTQ]]+ people and people of color.<ref name="Valenti">{{Cite web |title=This Breast Cancer Survivor's Runway Walk Was a Fashion Week Game Changer |last=Valenti |first=Lauren |work=Vogue |date=12 February 2018 |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= https://www.vogue.com/article/chromat-fall-2018-ericka-heart-breast-cancer-survivor-model-interview}}</ref><ref name="Vasquez">{{Cite web |title=Four radical sex educators you should know |author=Vasquez, Tina |work=Daily Kos |date=August 18, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/18/1970304/-Four-radical-sex-educators-you-should-know}}</ref><ref name="Sonoma" /> | She was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in 2014 and underwent a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Since then, they have gone topless during many public appearances in order to raise breast cancer awareness, especially for [[LGBTQ]]+ people and people of color.<ref name="Valenti">{{Cite web |title=This Breast Cancer Survivor's Runway Walk Was a Fashion Week Game Changer |last=Valenti |first=Lauren |work=Vogue |date=12 February 2018 |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= https://www.vogue.com/article/chromat-fall-2018-ericka-heart-breast-cancer-survivor-model-interview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620232953/https://www.vogue.com/article/chromat-fall-2018-ericka-heart-breast-cancer-survivor-model-interview |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Vasquez">{{Cite web |title=Four radical sex educators you should know |author=Vasquez, Tina |work=Daily Kos |date=August 18, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/18/1970304/-Four-radical-sex-educators-you-should-know|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103010046/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/18/1970304/-Four-radical-sex-educators-you-should-know |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Sonoma" /> | ||
Ericka lives in New York, USA with her partner Ebony.<ref name="Cooper">{{Cite web |title=Breast Cancer Survivor, Activist, & Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart’s Brooklyn Home Is a Celebration of Blackness |last=Cooper |first=Chinasa |work=Apartment Therapy |date=October 22, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ericka-hart-brooklyn-apartment-house-tour-36659660}}</ref> | From 2017 to 2020, Hart was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she taught classes on Human Sexuality and Gender. After complaining in the Spring 2020 semester to university deans about a student who was "making rape jokes in class as well as being transphobic and generally anti-black in my direction", Hart was cut from the faculty, with the official reasoning being "budget cuts".<ref name="Asare">{{Cite web |title=Academia Is Not Doing Enough To Support Black Professors: A Black Queer Non-Binary Femme's Story Of Being Pushed Out Of The Ivory Tower |last=Asare |first=Janice Gassam |work=Forbes |date=February 25, 2021 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2021/02/25/academia-is-not-doing-enough-to-support-black-professors-a-black-queer-non-binary-femmes-story-of-being-pushed-out-of-the-ivory-tower/?sh=6e7c82522683 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719114911/https://gum.criteo.com/syncframe?origin=publishertag&topUrl=www.forbes.com |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> The university replaced Hart with a "newly hired white [[cisgender]] professor" while still using Hart's syllabus.<ref name="ihar_Colu">{{Cite web |title=Columbia's School of Social Work is Racist to Black Students and Faculty (Spoiler) |last=Hart |first=Ericka |work=Medium |date=February 17, 2021 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url= https://ihartericka.medium.com/columbias-school-of-social-work-is-racist-to-black-students-and-faculty-spoiler-2602c707276c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225035219/https://ihartericka.medium.com/columbias-school-of-social-work-is-racist-to-black-students-and-faculty-spoiler-2602c707276c |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
They are also the host of a podcast titled "Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast".<ref name="surv_Meet">{{Cite web |title=Meet The Most Badass Breast Cancer Survivor, Ericka Hart — Naked, Loud, And Totally Proud Of Her Post-Surgery Body |author= |work=SurvivorNet |date=October 11, 2019 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url= https://www.survivornet.com/articles/meet-the-most-badass-breast-cancer-survivor-ericka-hart-naked-loud-and-totally-proud-of-her-post-surgery-body/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622191410/https://www.survivornet.com/articles/meet-the-most-badass-breast-cancer-survivor-ericka-hart-naked-loud-and-totally-proud-of-her-post-surgery-body/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | |||
Ericka lives in New York, USA with her partner Ebony.<ref name="Cooper">{{Cite web |title=Breast Cancer Survivor, Activist, & Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart’s Brooklyn Home Is a Celebration of Blackness |last=Cooper |first=Chinasa |work=Apartment Therapy |date=October 22, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ericka-hart-brooklyn-apartment-house-tour-36659660|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623002551/https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ericka-hart-brooklyn-apartment-house-tour-36659660 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | |||
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| Nationality | American |
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| Pronouns | she/her and they/them[1] |
| Gender identity | nonbinary femme[2][3] |
| Occupation | activist and sexuality educator |
Ericka Hart is an activist and sexuality educator. They received a Master's Degree in Education in Sexuality from Widener University.[4]
She was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in 2014 and underwent a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Since then, they have gone topless during many public appearances in order to raise breast cancer awareness, especially for LGBTQ+ people and people of color.[5][6][3]
From 2017 to 2020, Hart was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she taught classes on Human Sexuality and Gender. After complaining in the Spring 2020 semester to university deans about a student who was "making rape jokes in class as well as being transphobic and generally anti-black in my direction", Hart was cut from the faculty, with the official reasoning being "budget cuts".[7] The university replaced Hart with a "newly hired white cisgender professor" while still using Hart's syllabus.[8]
They are also the host of a podcast titled "Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast".[9]
Ericka lives in New York, USA with her partner Ebony.[10]
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- ↑ Instagram bio accessed 6 Oct 2020 Archived on 17 July 2023
- ↑ Finley, Taryn (February 8, 2019). "Ericka Hart Is On A Journey To Dismantle Medical Racism". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sonoma, Serena (October 1, 2020). "Ericka Hart's Mission: To Break Breast Cancer's Connotation With Cis Women". them. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ↑ Fluker, Dominique (June 11, 2018). "How This Sex Educator And Breast Cancer-Warrior Practices Activism And Self-Care". Forbes. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ↑ Valenti, Lauren (12 February 2018). "This Breast Cancer Survivor's Runway Walk Was a Fashion Week Game Changer". Vogue. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ↑ Vasquez, Tina (August 18, 2020). "Four radical sex educators you should know". Daily Kos. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ↑ Asare, Janice Gassam (February 25, 2021). "Academia Is Not Doing Enough To Support Black Professors: A Black Queer Non-Binary Femme's Story Of Being Pushed Out Of The Ivory Tower". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 19, 2023. Retrieved March 9, 2021.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ↑ Hart, Ericka (February 17, 2021). "Columbia's School of Social Work is Racist to Black Students and Faculty (Spoiler)". Medium. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
- ↑ "Meet The Most Badass Breast Cancer Survivor, Ericka Hart — Naked, Loud, And Totally Proud Of Her Post-Surgery Body". SurvivorNet. October 11, 2019. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
- ↑ Cooper, Chinasa (October 22, 2019). "Breast Cancer Survivor, Activist, & Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart's Brooklyn Home Is a Celebration of Blackness". Apartment Therapy. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.