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Lupus Awareness Month: Living, Treating, and Thriving With Lupus SLE 💜🦋

An educational graphic for Lupus Awareness Month by the Lupus Research Alliance. The image features a vibrant purple and red gradient background filled with circular photo frames showing various diverse women smiling, embracing, and walking together. Large text in the center reads, "9 OUT OF 10 PEOPLE WITH LUPUS ARE WOMEN," with "women" written in white cursive. The bottom of the image includes the logos for "hope in action THE FUTURE OF LUPUS" and the "LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE."
May is Lupus Awareness Month 💜. ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦋་༘࿐

As a Jamaican physical therapist living with Lupus SLE, this month means more than a color or a hashtag to me.  It’s personal.  It’s lived.  And it’s a reminder that behind every diagnosis is a person trying to keep moving through pain, fatigue, uncertainty, and invisible battles that most people never see.

Lupus does not look the same for everyone.  Some days it’s joint pain.  Some days, it’s exhaustion that feels heavier than your body.  Some days it’s the emotional weight of having to explain why you don’t always feel like yourself.  And for so many of us, it becomes a daily lesson in resilience 💪🏽

Photo: When Lupus wants to break my wings, I still fly
What we do know is this: 90% of people with lupus are women, and Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander people are disproportionately affected, both in prevalence and severity.  That reality matters.  It means representation in research matters.  It means our stories matter.  And it means continued research that includes women and people of color is essential to creating better, more effective therapies for everyone living with lupus.

As both a clinician and someone living with this disease, I have also benefited from new therapies aimed at putting lupus into remission — and that’s why I believe access to research, treatment, and representation is so important 🌍✨

This month, I’m honoring every lupus warrior carrying more than others can see.  You are not alone. 💜

Learn more: https://bit.ly/LAM2026FB or contact your local Lupus chapter for resources.

#LupusResearch #LupusAwareness #LupusAwarenessMonth #HopeInActionTheFutureOfLupus #LupusSLE #LupusWarrior #BlackHealthMatters #WomensHealth #ChronicIllnessAwareness #PhysicalTherapy

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