The black feminist Audre Lorde famously argued in her germinal essay “The Uses of Anger,” which is about women responding to racism, including the racism of other women, that “every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy, serving progress and change.” Lorde was very firm that she did not mean temporary, cosmetic change, not simply “the ability to smile or feel good.” Rather, she argued, well-aimed anger from women can
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