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A review by darlingtonswife
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
5.0
Audre Lords is one of my absolute favourite authors. Exploring her identity as a Black, lesbian woman in America, she definitely sets the foundation of what feminism should be.
Nowadays, intersectional feminism is getting attention, but not nearly enough to be making differences in society.
"Eye to eye: Black women, hatred and Anger," was an essay that really stuck with me. It is so easy to be labelled as the "angry-man-hating feminist," by society, a ploy to keep you submissive under the boot of the patriarchy. It's definitely silenced me a few times, made me feel unjustified in my frustration with sexism/ homophobia/ racism.
However, after reading Lorde discuss the suffering and pain about the uniquely brutal hostility to which Black women are subjected to, it just reminds you how manipulatively well society is in keeping the oppressed silent.
Nowadays, intersectional feminism is getting attention, but not nearly enough to be making differences in society.
"Eye to eye: Black women, hatred and Anger," was an essay that really stuck with me. It is so easy to be labelled as the "angry-man-hating feminist," by society, a ploy to keep you submissive under the boot of the patriarchy. It's definitely silenced me a few times, made me feel unjustified in my frustration with sexism/ homophobia/ racism.
However, after reading Lorde discuss the suffering and pain about the uniquely brutal hostility to which Black women are subjected to, it just reminds you how manipulatively well society is in keeping the oppressed silent.