Audre Lorde

sclerosis change our perspective on how we see illness. The Cancer Journal by Audre Lorde reflects on how a woman who loses her breast still believes that she is a warrior. Likewise, a famous feminist, Nancy Mairs, author of “On Being a Cripple” is a woman who calls herself “a cripple” by making fun of herself instead of having others do it for her. The way people see themselves is how the world beholds them. Thus, Lorde and Mairs call themselves a warrior and a cripple, which changes their…

Kelly J. Bell, “A Feminist 's Argument On How Sex Work Can Benefit Women” expressed sex work can help women to understand their sexuality and have control over their bodies. For women to be able to express their sexuality in the way they want can allow themselves to feel empowered. For example, “Sex work would not need to conform to the heteronormative, sometimes oppressive model of men paying women for sex” (Bell, 2009). This means sex work can change norms in society. Furthermore, Sex workers…

The course AFAS 160 D1 is my first online class, and until now I still felt lucky to choose this class as one of my general education classes, because it gave me a great opportunity and an eye-opening experience about learning the African American Culture which I have never learned before and also gave me a chance to learn online. Describing this course to someone else, I would say this class is interesting and if you want to learn this class well, you need to prepare the Voice Thread and read…

This is similar to certain factions of the women’s movement today, as Audre Lorde explains, “Within the women’s movement today, white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class, and age” (Lorde). The consequence of this attitude is that race and gender are often treated as “mutually exclusive” (Crenshaw 1) categories, which negates the “multidimensionality”…

through your skin that also carries the leaves that had fallen off of a tree which gives you a sign that autumn is here. There are many way that you could feel “the power of the erotic” in your life that would make you feel more alive in this world. Lorde in her essay also separates erotic from pornography because many people can still get confused with these two terms --erotic is the opposite of pornography. Erotic again is a depth feeling while pornography is all about sensations only. The…

passage of time, we assume that this darkness has passed and that the people of America has embraced all ethnicities and cultures. However, during this election year, the hate has begun to resurface worse than ever before. In Audre Lorde’s essay, “The Fourth of July”, Lorde describes the racism she experienced during her childhood, around the forties. During her time, segregation existed and excluded her from activities that normal children participated in. It prevented her from going on a field…

Americans have been in the eye of the storm due to their race. Consequently, they have a past history of suffering because of their enslavement, which was caused by their color of skin. Writers Robert Hayden, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde in their time revealed their thoughts and feelings about race in their time to gain recognition and respect for African Americans. Additionally, they show the oppression of victims and the experiences they underwent. Furthermore, these…

I can say this idea of women’s liberation movement it is an important theory where women’s shows a strong feminist movement, by declaring and giving this statements. These three essays show a very strong story and poems where it reflects the every day problem from women’s that suffer from any type of abuse such as sexual harassment, domestic violence, and more. For example this first essay by Harriet Jacob’s “ Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl”, it dose reflect the type of oppression that…

Examining Ehrenreich, Lorde, and Danquah’s narratives and their resistance to Normalization Barbara Ehrenreich, Audre Lorde, and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah’s illness narratives do more than recount stories of illness, the narratives depict resistance to normalization or becoming normate by making visible the larger structural inequities. Not only do these narratives show how the systems that are supposed to aid and heal those who are ill, but reinforce the inequities. Ehrenreich’s “Welcome to…

the only feminism seen in our world. Many different women exist; therefore, many versions of feminism exist. When reading Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools”, Combahee River Collective’s “A Black Feminist Statement”, and Rhon Manigault-Bryant’s “An Open Letter to White Liberal Feminists”, the idea that multiple versions and conceptions of feminism exist becomes undeniable. Lorde writes that women should revel in differences and use them as a source of power instead of merely tolerating each…