Audre Lorde

Just as Black females come in all shape, sizes and shades of color, there is no one box that can contain a Black woman’s sexuality. Since slavery days, there has been a suppressive chain placed by society dictating that Black women were either sex toys for someone else’s pleasure or an asexual laborer that could be treated even worse than a Black man. Sojourner Truth described the reality of being a Black female in 1851 with “Ain’t I a Women?” declaring that can work just has hard as man and her…

managed to escape eugenics and forced sterilization still face the ongoing racism. In her book A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer, Audre Lorde talks about her coping with cancer in a world that seemingly doesn’t care about her due to the racism and sexism that exists. “I wasn’t supposed to exist anyway, not in any meaningful way in this fucked-up whiteboys’ world” (Lorde 91). Her anger can be felt towards the society that white people have created that puts black people at numerous…

Examples of illness bringing about death include Audre Lorde with cancer, Moraga’s friends with AIDS, and even Rafael, Moraga’s son, was close to death because he was born pre-maturely. The most controversial aspect of death was Moraga’s decision to include AIDS in this piece. AIDS was known as the “gay disease”…

When entering the United States health care system the tendency to pressure patients into masking suffering comes from to two main sources- health care professionals and family members of the patient. It is difficult for health care professionals to avoid emotional investment surrounding their success of their work, like any other occupation. Family members, contribute to this pressure, because there is escalating emotional investment in the outcome of the treatment. When these are established…

America presents itself as a land of freedom and equality, allowing many Americans to believe this as truth, even while certain groups have been ignored and left out of opportunities for achievement. This disregard of racial oppression in America has prevailed and greatly influenced American writers. It appears throughout American literature in conversation with itself the racial situations in the United States. From its inception, America has dealt with the question of equality,…

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences(Audre Lorde). Since I have memory, I remember coming to the United States of America to buy clothes with my family, more than twice a year. Since I am Mexican, I have always found a difference between American culture and our culture. But it was until some years ago, that I can see how those differences that I saw since I was little, are known as Racism. Which is one of the biggest…

In Audre Lorde’s “The Fourth of July”, Lorde, an African-American, concludes that in a democracy, the needs of the majority - in her essay, the whites - are prioritized over the needs of the minority, leading to a tyranny of the majority of sorts. Because of this, America’s…

Aatia Jaine Davison Reading Reflection #1 “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster” by Mitsuye Yamada begins with an anecdote. In the middle of one of her lectures on Ethnic American Literature, a white student pipes up to expresses her resentment toward the apparent “militant tone” of one Asian American writer’s works. This student claimed to be fed up with being blamed for the oppression of all minorities just because of the color of her skin. How was that fair? She certainly didn’t ask to be…

Casey Stangel Final Paper COM 498 February 26, 2017 Forming a Statement The music video “Formation”, by Beyoncé, illustrates many representations of blackness due to its focus on black feminism and black culture. It exposes the feelings centered around the issues that the black community has endured in the past as well as current issues faced today. It represents the identity of black women and unapologetically represents Beyoncé’s pride in being black and a woman. As I work to unpack this…

Audre Lorde et al (1993) talked about the difficult of raising a son and a daughter. It’s was found in the article that raising a black children is a very terrifying and chancy simply because if they can’t love and resist at the same, they will probably not…