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wonderboy19
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posted 07 March 2006 11:39 AM
I'd like to share this article on Audre Lorde for Women's Month:
Audre
by Max Gordon
Sapience Magazine
March 2006
When a black, lesbian, feminist, poet, mother living with cancer stands up in her glory, it is the ultimate liberation. Each of us is represented in her aspect; every race, every sex and sexual orientation. When she is liberated or liberates herself, we are all liberated, because in the hierarchy of societal power she is technically at the “bottom.” When she rises up from being buried alive under an avalanche of childhood sexual and physical abuse, institutional racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty, and all the attempts that society has manufactured to kill her, render her silent, drive her crazy, or make her physically sick or addicted; if she still remembers everything we’ve done to her and is able to tell and tell it eloquently, then we are all in danger.
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bigcitygal
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posted 07 March 2006 09:30 PM
Max, thank you for that wonderful article.And here's some of my favourite Audre quotes: quote:
Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and promary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.
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Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can being to illuminate all our choices.From "The Master's Tools will never dismantle the master's house" in Sister/Outsider
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We have chosen each other
And the edge of each other's battles
The war is the same
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wonderboy19
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posted 08 March 2006 10:32 AM
Bigcitygal,Thanks so much for reminding me about this quote, I've added "personal is political" to the piece - signature Audre. That's one of the reasons why posting an article here can be so helpful - you can see what you forgot and what other people are thinking. Thanks for the feedback. M [ 08 March 2006: Message edited by: wonderboy19 ]
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