Status Updates From The Selected Works of Audre...

last night I re-read the essay “Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”. stirred something in me as I feel myself becoming more cynical and angry in recent months. it’s powerful to revisit text at different points in your life and let it act as a mirror

everyone go read ‘change of season’ now

Ma.ra.vi.llosos los ensayos de Audre Lorde que aparecen en este libro

“Anthologies like this are so very necessary because, all too often, people misappropriate the words and ideas of black women. They do so selectively, using the parts that serve their aims, and abandoning those parts that don't.”
- Introduction by Roxane Gay

Holy fuck. I wasn’t even ten pages in and I was already crying. Chat, this might be the one. I’m lowkey feeling like Audre Lorde might be the one. “I feel, therefore I can be free.”

"Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable."

"We are women who love women. This does not mean we are going to assault your daughters in an alley on Nostrand Avenue. It does not mean we are about to attack you if we pay you a compliment on your dress. It does not mean we only think about sex, any more than you think about sex."

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you."