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Sister Outsider - Essais et propos sur la poésie, l'érotisme, le racisme, le sexisme... by Audre Lorde
5.0
Audre Lorde is one of my favourite poets. I came across her work through university, through an introduction to academic research class during my Bachelor's degree, as I was studying Black feminism. I later decided to write my first master thesis on sapphic poetry studying again Audre Lorde.
I am full of admiration of who this person was. She had such a way with words and was such a strong and inspiring woman. She had a lot to say, she needed to let her anger out while still being hopeful.
I'm finding it really hard to review her mind-blowing collection of essays. I lack words and feel like that no thoughts head empty meme, which doesn't do Lorde's work justice.
I believe her essays are definitely important pieces in feminist theories and movements. With Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde becomes one of the precursors for the concept of intersectionality. She talks about facing racism within feminist groups, misogyny within Black groups, homophobia within both. For instance, how white women will only focus on their oppression as women while not taking into account social class, age, race and sexual orientation differences.
Some of her sentences made me reflect on certain things: on the existence of sorority, on how oppressed groups always have to educate the oppressors, on the use of poetry, on the non-constructive discussions within oppressed groups in which "who is poorer than who, who is more Black than who" (kind of like when people on twitter talked about the dangers of those Olympic games of oppressed groups).
Audre Lorde and her work deserve and need to be studied, not only in the USA but in other countries as well. Here are my favourite essays: "Poetry Is Not a Luxury", "Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface", "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" and "Learning from the 60's".
I am full of admiration of who this person was. She had such a way with words and was such a strong and inspiring woman. She had a lot to say, she needed to let her anger out while still being hopeful.
I'm finding it really hard to review her mind-blowing collection of essays. I lack words and feel like that no thoughts head empty meme, which doesn't do Lorde's work justice.
I believe her essays are definitely important pieces in feminist theories and movements. With Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde becomes one of the precursors for the concept of intersectionality. She talks about facing racism within feminist groups, misogyny within Black groups, homophobia within both. For instance, how white women will only focus on their oppression as women while not taking into account social class, age, race and sexual orientation differences.
Some of her sentences made me reflect on certain things: on the existence of sorority, on how oppressed groups always have to educate the oppressors, on the use of poetry, on the non-constructive discussions within oppressed groups in which "who is poorer than who, who is more Black than who" (kind of like when people on twitter talked about the dangers of those Olympic games of oppressed groups).
Audre Lorde and her work deserve and need to be studied, not only in the USA but in other countries as well. Here are my favourite essays: "Poetry Is Not a Luxury", "Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface", "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" and "Learning from the 60's".