Audre Lorde

She explains how we cannot define discrimination in one word. Such writers as audre lorde, Adrienne rich, bell hooks and the Combahee river collective anticipated that discrimination among women in the US is more than just gender based. They also believed that discrimination among black lives ran rampant due to the confusion of what…

Afro-German progress, develops, in “East Berlin”, into one of an ambush set as a stumbling block besieging the barrier endangering all possibilities for black people to coexist: “ It feels dangerous now/to be Black in Berlin” (The Collected Poems 465). Lorde plays the role of a cultural model leading the struggle against racism and raising the cause of Afro-German women: Already my blood shrieks through East Berlin streets misplaced hatreds volcanic tallies rung upon cement …

Though I conceived my definition independent of school, I have read certain articles which validate my denotation. These articles include “Women’s Studies and the Question of Gender,” by Bonnie Smith, “There is no Hierarchy of Oppression,” by Audre Lorde, and “the Social Construction of Gender,” by Judith Lorber. From these articles, one may discern that gender is a social construct which applies certain roles and labels for certain individuals based on their outward appearance. Such labels…

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the “Master’s House” is reinforced by Bob Ewell as he compels Mayella into accusing Tom Robinson of rape and by the all-white jury that finds Tom Robinson guilty. Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, forces Mayella to accuse Tom Robinson of rape in order to protect them from the social disgrace due to Mayella's actions. This demonstrates patriarchy as Bob Ewell has power over Mayella. Moreover, Tom Robinson faces racial prejudice as he had tried to help…

In a speech given at a women’s studies conference, Audre Lorde narrates a structural critique of racist heteropatriarchy given her intersectionality as a Black lesbian. Heteropatriarchy can be described simply as straight male dominance. Although they have different amounts of melanin in their skin, Lorde describes the similarities White women and women of color face in regards to misogyny, men, and institutions. She brings up anger and the role emotions have played in the contemporary United…

This entry is in response to Audre Lorde's Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference. This was an incredible read. Lorde's essay reads like a critique of contemporary Hollywood. Lorde touches on the subject of age which is interesting, because although intersectionality has been a significant part of this class all the other authors including Davis seem to omit the importance of age. I really would like to know why that is, as women are discriminated against on the bases of age…

flip side, in Audre Lorde’s poem “Coal”, it talks…

have seen how women all over the world fight for power through resistance. In the two readings, Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde and The Romanc1e of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power through Bedouin Women by Lila Abu-Lughod we see how women talk about power and resistance and how both have one goal, rights for women. Audre Lorde talks about how the erotic is a power that has to do not only with sex but with the feelings of everything we do. She explains how,…

Zora Hurston explained the uniqueness of the black very well in her article “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. Hurston also had experience of racism in her life. Unlike Lorde, Hurston noticed the uniqueness of the black when she discussed her story about racism. She mentioned her childhood memory of being everyone’s Zora until she left Eatonville, Florida at the age of thirteen (Hurston 186). The description of her childhood…

society to have a sense of community especially women, the main method men use to sustain the patriarchy is to divide and conquer by alienating women and making them competitors amongst each other. In the words of Audre Lorde “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Lorde 335), women cannot use the tools of alienating to undo the idea of the patriarchy, so women need to stand together and dismantle the system of oppression. It is abnormal for screenwriters to write women…