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This is essential reading for everyone out there who cares about social justice and feminism and always had anger boiling within them!!!
Every thing that Audre Lorde speaks of is golden. Incredibly inspiring and full of heart, insight and wisdom, she criticises white feminism, reminds us of the importance of intersectionality, points out the misdirected horizontal hostility within the black community, and plenty more that deserves more time and multiple close readings to digest.
On several uplifting notes, she reminds us to live out our deepest truths, remember what the women who came before us have learned and finally integrate those lessons into our lives and work - all of which I will now strive to do.
I have a strong feeling that I would refer to this time and time again in my life and feel a sense of renewal each time, particularly to ‘Learning from the 60s’, ‘Uses of Anger’, ‘and Age, Race, Class, and Sex’ if I absolutely had to choose.
Every thing that Audre Lorde speaks of is golden. Incredibly inspiring and full of heart, insight and wisdom, she criticises white feminism, reminds us of the importance of intersectionality, points out the misdirected horizontal hostility within the black community, and plenty more that deserves more time and multiple close readings to digest.
On several uplifting notes, she reminds us to live out our deepest truths, remember what the women who came before us have learned and finally integrate those lessons into our lives and work - all of which I will now strive to do.
I have a strong feeling that I would refer to this time and time again in my life and feel a sense of renewal each time, particularly to ‘Learning from the 60s’, ‘Uses of Anger’, ‘and Age, Race, Class, and Sex’ if I absolutely had to choose.
One new approach I am taking with me into reading more nonfiction is, taking what resonates with me, taking the parts I understand then transforming what I don’t into learning something useful to move forward with. This new way of reading has made me more receptive to nonfiction.
I struggled with Audre Lorde especially, but being able to talk about it with friends let me know that I am grasping her messages. I can follow along, get lost a bit, but come to the same conclusion. Even when I’m unable to fully comprehend what I am reading, I still feel I learned something. I still don’t have the tools to fully analyze her writing, but it’s no longer daunting to step in to these texts.
Some quotes I’m taking with me:
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
"And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives. That we cannot hide behind a mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own."
"I see it, I recorded, I do not name it, so the experience is incomplete. It is not pain; it becomes suffering."
"But communicating deep feeling in linear, solid blocks of print felt arcane, a method beyond me."
I struggled with Audre Lorde especially, but being able to talk about it with friends let me know that I am grasping her messages. I can follow along, get lost a bit, but come to the same conclusion. Even when I’m unable to fully comprehend what I am reading, I still feel I learned something. I still don’t have the tools to fully analyze her writing, but it’s no longer daunting to step in to these texts.
Some quotes I’m taking with me:
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
"And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives. That we cannot hide behind a mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own."
"I see it, I recorded, I do not name it, so the experience is incomplete. It is not pain; it becomes suffering."
"But communicating deep feeling in linear, solid blocks of print felt arcane, a method beyond me."
Hoe kan ik ooit beschrijven hoe geweldig, intelligent, indrukwekkend, en nog heel wat andere adjectieven, dit boek is? Ik ga het zeker nog heel wat keren (met plezier) moeten herlezen om de nuances te begrijpen, maar wow. Wat een boek.
This book is heavy and so prescient. Essays, speeches, and a set of journal entries comprise this collection by a poet who found her politically liberating academic voice after facing her mortality from breast cancer. It’s painful to read this collection because so many of the atrocities that she names are still so common in our present day, and haven’t been destroyed by nominal progress (as seemed the promise of the Civil Rights, Women’s, and LGBTQIA+ movements in the preceding decades) and movements towards greater representation in the dominant culture. Lorde is so sharp and incisive in her targeted critiques of white feminism, toxic masculinity, and capitalism. If you like the ideas of Bernie Sanders, it’s likely that you will see Lorde’s arguments within a similar tradition of common sense liberation. Her concepts can be straightforward yet subversive, and the structure of some of her sentences are just breathtaking. This book is less than 200 pages, but I took my time and read over four days, because I really feel there is a lot to learn from Lorde’s concepts and arguments. Even though I am usually not a big poetry reader (sadly, because I have enjoyed it from time to time), I know I want to pick up a lot more from this author including her poetry, because her writing is just so captivating and interesting.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I should not have audiobook this I should’ve read it with my eyes
Fantastic. The audiobook does not lend itself well to the midsection interview in particular, but overall this was amazing. Audre Lorde speaks truth in the vein of James Baldwin and Malcolm X. I'm looking forward to rereading, and delving into more of her work. A highly recommended collection.
'Forward ever, backward never' is more than a mere whistle in the present dark.
'Forward ever, backward never' is more than a mere whistle in the present dark.
Essential. It’s sad that the issues discussed are still so prevalent nearly 40 years after the original publication.