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A review by goddessofwhatnot
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
It’s actually quite discouraging how relevant and applicable Lorde’s writing still is today:
Raising a Black son in America; how the oppressed bare the responsibility of educating their oppressors on their mistakes (maintaining the power imbalance & absolving oppressors of responsibility & accountability); the poison of white feminism; the erasure of queer and bipoc voices in activist spaces & liberation movements; imperial violence and media lies & propaganda, etc
Raising a Black son in America; how the oppressed bare the responsibility of educating their oppressors on their mistakes (maintaining the power imbalance & absolving oppressors of responsibility & accountability); the poison of white feminism; the erasure of queer and bipoc voices in activist spaces & liberation movements; imperial violence and media lies & propaganda, etc