#Audre Lorde

[stanleyscubrick]

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

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[soracities]

Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

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[sweatermuppet]

the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself, intended as a creative writing exercise by Divya Victor, who asks to be credited

#audre lorde #divya victor

[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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[nerdygaymormon]

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[sisteroutsiders]

Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

#A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde #Audre Lorde #Black women #Black feminism #film #interviews #on writing #edited because I did not originally upload the complete quotation. the last screenshot was added 9-25.

[raspberrysgod]

when audre lorde wrote "the shape of your teeth is written into my palm like a second lifeline." and virginia woolf "in case you ever foolishly forget; i'm never not thinking of you." and sylvia plath "kiss me, and you will see how important i am."

#audre lorde #virginia woolf #sylvia plath

[havingapoemwithyou]

out of the wind by Audre Lorde

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[spells4woc]

A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)

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[littlealienproducts]

Audre Lorde Feminist Quote t-shirt by purgatoryltd

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[ftmtftm]

I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an interracial couple, I usually find myself part of some group in which the majority defines me as deviant, difficult, inferior or just plain "wrong."

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. I have learned that sexism and heterosexism both arise from the same source as racism.

"Oh," says a voice from the Black community, "but being Black is NORMAL!" Well, I and many Black people of my age can remember grimly the days when it didn't used to be!

I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity. I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence. Rather, we diminish ourselves by denying to others what we have shed blood to obtain for our children. And those children need to learn that they do not have to become like each other in order to work together for a future they will all share.

Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

Audre Lorde, There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions [ audio / pdf ] - bold and italics mine

#audre lorde #intersectional feminism #feminism #feminist theory

[poetrysmackdown]

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[soracities]

Audre Lorde, from “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (1981) [ID in ALT]

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[metamorphesque]

It's not you I've lost, but the world.

a kind of loss (Ingeborg Bachmann), variations on the word love (Margaret Atwood), i am the brother of xx (Fleur Jaeggy), don't go far off, not even for a day (Pablo Neruda), recreation (Audre Lorde), wuthering heights (Emily Brontë), i carry your heart with me (e. e. cummings)

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[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

#quotes #reading #audre lorde #the cancer journals

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! (February 18, 1934)

A prominent Black lesbian poet and activist, Audre Lorde’s work deals with themes of feminism, identity, discrimination, struggle, and civil rights. Born in New York, Lorde began writing poems in eighth grade and gained prominence throughout the 1960s as a young poet on the rise. Lorde was highly influential in the field of Black feminism, often clashing with white feminists whose feminism served to reinforce the oppression of Black women. She was also an anticapitalist who experienced discrimination in left-wing circles due to the fact that she was a lesbian. Throughout her life, Lorde published a number of poems, books, essays, and speeches, and today is regarded as one of the finest poets in American history.

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”

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