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The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117

vulnerability is liberation.

out of the wind by Audre Lorde

the wind blows through [the room]. you see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.

i. @jupiter-suggestion

ii. wallows’ “do not wait”

iii. banksy’s “show me the monet”

iv. alain de botton’s “on love”

v. adyashanti

vi. audre lorde’s “learning from the 60s”

vii. hans vandekerckhove’s “another portrait of an artist”

viii. jenny slate

ix. @j-fouur

x. mary oliver’s “blue iris”

caption: franz kafka’s diaries (1915-1923)

It is not our differences that divide us.

It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

He has chronically cozy syndrome.

Prints available soon!

“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered. It is this real connection which is so feared by a patriarchal world.”

— Audre Lorde, from The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

"And there is for me no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love."

- Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"

We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists because we believe that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do the work and create the products, and not for the profit of the bosses. Material resources must be equally distributed among those who create these resources. We are not convinced, however, that a socialist revolution that is not also a feminist and anti-racist revolution will guarantee our liberation.

The Combahee River Collective, “Section 2: What We Believe,” The Combahee Statement, 1977, (included in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective, ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Haymarket Press, 2017, pp. 19-20).

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

harsh reminder that if you’re part of the lgtbqia+ community and are silent or against the black lives matter movement, then i hope you remember who ran so you could walk

“And I tell you this. My friends, there will always be someone seeking to use one part of your selves, and at the same time urging you to forget or destroy all of the other selves. And I warn you, this is death. Death to you as a woman, death to you as a poet, death to you as a human being.”

— Audre Lorde, from “Self-Definition and My Poetry“ (via violentwavesofemotion)