Taylor Carter’s Reviews > The Selected Works of Audre Lorde > Status Update

Powerful. Use the anger from the wrongs of the world as a power source to fight for change. We must acknowledge the anger of our fellow women from all backgrounds, see our differences, & how we can be the oppressor & the oppressed. See the differences between white & black in our society & don’t hide from it or use anger from your guilt in defense. No woman, no Black person, is free until we are all free.

I finished the next section of prose “Use of the Erotic”. The language used requires me to read over& over again to understand what Lorde is saying. Which isn’t a complaint about the book, it shows that I really want to understand what I read. I believe the erotic is that intuition, joy, closeness, confidence,the knowing your self & your feelings & trusting them. The erotic is knowing your power as a woman.

I just finished “My Mothers Mortar”. Lorde’s writing is the kind that makes you turn inward and outward. Pausing a moment to fully understand what I’ve read why it made me feel the way it did. The story is, on the surface& in short about, a girl getting her period, her relationship with her body & with her body. At a time where I crave real& thought provoking& self reflection, I’m glad I bought this book.