Status Updates From The Selected Works of Audre...

im gonna end up highlighting and underline so many things in here oh my god

reading uses of the erotic - she is really speaking to a feeling that’s been coming up for me recently, talking about how we need to look at all aspects of our life through the lens of the joy we know we’re capable of feeling, and see what aspects do/don’t align with that feeling

“Death, on the other hand, is the final silence. And that might be coming quickly, now, without regard for whether I had ever spoken what needed to be said, or had only betrayed myself into small silences, while I planned someday to speak, or waited for someone else’s words.”