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mihikasamant 's review for:
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
I don’t usually write reviews but I felt like my three star rating to this much beloved collection warranted some justification.
I really wanted to fall in love with this book, considering I stand for what it seeks to convey, but found it really hard to deeply connect with it. Beautiful prose and strong, admirable thoughts and opinions but gets repetitive (which is fair considering it’s a collection of separately written essays for varied occasions). That being said, it is a very valuable resource for anyone hoping to understand intersectionality better. Audre’s thinking is phenomenal. Perhaps my mistake was in that i approached it expecting either a book full of personal experiences that would educate me about what it is like to be a ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ or a theoretical handbook on intersectionality - both of which it simultaneously is and is not. So if this is your introduction to Audre Lorde (like it was for me) don’t go in expecting what i did.
I’m hoping to re read this in the future and loving it as much as I wanted to.
I really wanted to fall in love with this book, considering I stand for what it seeks to convey, but found it really hard to deeply connect with it. Beautiful prose and strong, admirable thoughts and opinions but gets repetitive (which is fair considering it’s a collection of separately written essays for varied occasions). That being said, it is a very valuable resource for anyone hoping to understand intersectionality better. Audre’s thinking is phenomenal. Perhaps my mistake was in that i approached it expecting either a book full of personal experiences that would educate me about what it is like to be a ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ or a theoretical handbook on intersectionality - both of which it simultaneously is and is not. So if this is your introduction to Audre Lorde (like it was for me) don’t go in expecting what i did.
I’m hoping to re read this in the future and loving it as much as I wanted to.