Audre Lorde's Speech Analysis

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All of the assigned readings from the course reader had some type of connection. Based on the essays and speeches I read by Audre Lorde I feel she bought up a lot of key points. The major points that stuck out to me was in the article Lorde is stating and suggesting that women oppress other women just as much as men oppress women and argues that women should seek to uncover and discuss the differences. She shed light on oppression and made it clear that we need to think about oppression from all angles and women need to realize that there is more to gender oppression than just from men. Lastly Lorde states “Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age and sex, but it is not those differences between us that are separating

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