Summary Of Lesbianism An Act Of Resistance By Cheryl Clarke Lesbianism

Along the same line, Cheryl Clarke, a lesbian poet, essayist and a black feminist activist, in her essay “Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance” (1981), she examines the lesbian identity as a new emerging strategy to fight the “male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture as an act of resistance” (128). Clarke draws the similarity between the oppression of the African Americans and women’s oppression arguing that lesbians share the same experience of oppression as black people. So, she urges them to decolonize themselves from the “slave-master’s imperialism” (128) and “reverse and transform predatory heterosexuality” (134). She insists on the idea that “lesbianism is a recognition, an awakening, a reawakening