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I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatt...

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Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the w...

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As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed t...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...

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I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, t...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another ...

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Audre LordeThe Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a bi...

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If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black woman...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a cro...

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and...

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