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Wow. Just incredible. Will def need to reread.
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
She was talking about intersectionality in feminism and progressive spaces in the 80's, and we're not there YET. Wow, I wish I'd read her stuff sooner. I guess if I'd been ready to do so, I would have. Better get myself to reading more.
As relevant today as ever. We have so much work yet to do.
Listened to the audio and need to add this book to my collection to reread. Much of what Lorde says about the 80's still applies today.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde was published in 1984, but the topics such as racism, sexism, and heterosexism Lorde addresses are just as relevant today. These essays and speeches made me think and examine my view points.
Audre Lorde really spoke to me in this book. I felt like all the issues people of color and queer folks were dealing with during the time that she wrote these essays and speeches are still relevant today, which is unfortunate and telling of the progress we have made. Every essay and speech was honest and put forth some ideas and concepts for me to ponder on and maybe incorporate into my life and personal politics.
This book was given to me by an advisor in college and I wish I would have read it back then. But I think that with everything happening in #Ferguson and all around the United States around the fact that #BlackLivesMatter, I found myself taking notes about how these movements can be better and how I can contribute. The timing was perfect.
This book was given to me by an advisor in college and I wish I would have read it back then. But I think that with everything happening in #Ferguson and all around the United States around the fact that #BlackLivesMatter, I found myself taking notes about how these movements can be better and how I can contribute. The timing was perfect.
Radical.
Black Lesbian Woman.
Lorde's repetitions of her identity and how racism, sexism, and homophobia have impacted her life are powerful. Powerful is a weak word to describe just how poignant her voice raises and lowers feelings of anger, curiosity, and the need to do better not just for yourself and the people closest to you, but the people you may not even know you impacted.
Black Lesbian Woman.
Lorde's repetitions of her identity and how racism, sexism, and homophobia have impacted her life are powerful. Powerful is a weak word to describe just how poignant her voice raises and lowers feelings of anger, curiosity, and the need to do better not just for yourself and the people closest to you, but the people you may not even know you impacted.
It was great to get a copy of this book through my local library, but it soon turned into another of those special books I wished I had my own copy to dog-ear and go over and over. I expected to be moved by this collection of Lorde’s essays, one or two of which I had read before, but I didn’t expect so much of the content to be as relevant and fresh and urgent today as they truly still are. Among many things, she really made me think about current identity politics and about solidarity, the power of our differences, and to always reaching for commonalities. This book has so much to offer beyond its publication period, not only for us to understand Lorde’s life and times, but for us to interpret ours too.