Audre Lorde

white, heterosexual, cisgender women. Audre Lorde, a prominent second-wave feminist, identified herself as a “black lesbian feminist socialist” (Lorde 114). She was largely concerned with similar themes as Gay, always including how her identities intersected, as she remained highly critical of the mainstream feminist movement for the way “white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class, and age” (Lorde 116). Not only did the feminist…

Audre Lorde once said “Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.” Dehumanization and Alienation are the ways people are forgotten and left out. Elie Wiesel Night, and Franz Kafka “ Metamorphosis” both show alienation and dehumanization. For years dehumanization and alienation played a major impact in our world. We live in a time that people forget the human aspect in human beings. In “Metamorphosis” Franz Kafka…

identity be isolated from their neighborhood because they and their neighbor never get a chance to understand each other. Without communicating, neighbors will misunderstand each other, it will cause the oppression more seriously. What I learned from Audre Lorde’s “I Am Your Sister” is the only way to avoid oppression is speaking it out and not afraid to announce your identities to the world even this may be dangerous. Everyone should celebrate who they are. Silence would not protect oneself,…

“America’s Gift to my Generation” Claudia Pemberton said “America without her soldiers would be God without his angels.” America’s gift to us is the military the ways they are our gift is they are our protection, they fight in our wars, and they sacrifice themselves to save us. The military is the most powerful armed forces that we have and they started around the 1700s. Therefore they give us protection . They fight in our wars. They die or sacrifice themselves to save us. The military has…

According to Hill Collins, is oppression full of contradictions because each group describes the type of oppression they feel comfortable with as being fundamental and thereby classify other oppression as less important.This approaches fail to recognize that there are only few people who are purely victims or oppressors. Each person has varying amounts of penalties and privileges from different systems of oppression that frames everyone's lives. This makes oppression to be full of contradictions…

personal truth. Lorde believed that philosophy tries to separate thought and passion. As a result, Lorde views this as philosophy’s way of breaking one’s identity into many different pieces. A person’s identity is composed of both passion and rationale though, and Lorde’s ideas and teachings aimed to unite both passion and rationale. In fact, Lorde viewed the combination of both ideas as a way for one to evaluate herself, and expand one’s knowledge of passion and impulses. Also, Lorde believed…

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival,” said Audre Lorde.“Thematically, she expresses or explores pride, love, anger, fear, racial and sexual oppression, urban neglect, and personal survival. ” She has a similar story to Elie Wiesel and Paul Rusesabagina. They all faced an act of hatred that caused damage to another person. This lead onto a contemplative situation where you could’ve died. In “Night “(Elie Wiesel), “An…

interconnected due to the role they play in how we are represented throughout our lives. They determine our safety, education, job opportunity/ security, representation, and many more supplementary factors. In the reading: Age, Race, Class, and Sex, Audre Lorde spoke of a “mythical norm”. The mythical norm is an abstract ideology we house, telling us we are not good enough, if we do not live in regards to a designated set of characteristics. The characteristics are the following: “white,…

personal problem, but I know those people are dying to be heard. Most people will tell you silence is providential or silence is key. Well not quite. Silence is the ocean of the unsaid, the unutterable, the tyrannized, the erased, the unheard. Audre Lorde, in the article, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and…

“My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you”, Audre Lorde wrote in “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”(Lorde and Clarke 2007). The LGBT community has had to fight for social and political progress within many diverse spheres. Early movements often struggled to select the appropriate approaches towards achieving progress. Many issues the community has been confronted with were divisive in nature, with some preferring assimilation, while others…