Status Updates From The Selected Works of Audre...

swims toward safety / through a lake of her own blood /

“What you know can hurt, but what you do not know can kill.”

Recreation

“As your body moves under my hands
Charged and waiting
We cut the leash
You create me against your thighs”

“My body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me”

“When we are loved, we are afraid love will vanish.
When we are alone, we are afraid love will never return.

When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.”

Change of Season
“Am I to be cursed forever with becoming somebody else on the way to myself?”

Where are we now? 1+1 is too late

Burst of Light 3/3: how we care for our bodies is an act of personal autonomy and sovereignty

Burst of light (2/?)

“Making it means doing it our way for as long as possible”