In the readings and video presented in week 3‚ I think‚ that each one’s main theme was about gender‚ race‚ age‚ intersectionality‚ and the traditional cultures that people were raised in. In Sister Outsider‚ where Audre Lorde discussed age‚ race‚ class‚ and sex‚ she states that within the women’s movement today‚ white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race‚ sexual preference‚ class‚ and age. She talks about the struggles of colored women in the todays society and
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eighteenth century aristocrats disregarded the peasants‚ the twenty-first century wealthy white elites are similarly indifferent to the conditions of the black poor. Other forms of oppression originate from white feminists themselves. Radical feminist‚ Audre Lorde‚ attacks the underlying racism within feminism in her article‚ “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” She asserts that feminists advocate the “mere tolerance of difference” between women instead of addressing or even caring
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and rude. The men’s always sees women’s style as negative‚ powerless and in lower status than them. In the article‚ “Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde‚ Lorde’s illustrates the main idea of breaking silence and standing up for yourself‚ also make your fear into you strength and power. Lorde illustrates that you should break your
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The F-Word Conference: Reflection on “White Women and their White Feminism” White feminists is a type of feminism that believes that all women face the same oppressions‚ ignoring how race‚ class‚ ethnicity and sexual orientation impact the way discrimination is experienced. Yasamin Graff‚ in “White Women and their White Feminism‚” explained how white privilege should be addressed when talking about feminism. Especially in western society feminism’s goal seems to be the liberation for the white
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The article “Poetry is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde talks about how important poetry can be to the human race. While most think poetry is just words put together‚ she romanticizes poetry into something much more. While she does say it is necessary for all‚ rather than a simple hobby; she tends to focus more on how it can affect the female race. The feminist theory is slowly weaved into this article. She allows us to believe that as an individual‚ my voice is who I am‚ who I can become. When women
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Lorde and Rich both believe both intersectional failure and patriarchal society are the driving force for why women are oppressed. Rich would mention how politics concerning women are dominated and decided by mostly men in government. Very few if any women
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their parents. Three ideas that play a major role on a child’s perspective on culture are: social interactions between parent and child‚ the passing down of heirlooms‚ and emotional connections. These concepts are seen in the poems Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde and My Mother Pieced Quilts by Teresa Palomo Acosta. Social interactions play such a vital role in how a child perceives the world and culture around them. In the poem Hanging Fire‚ the speaker’s mother never seems to be there‚ which is stated
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peakout‚ and the ways we perform in public. An example in which language is a source of power is shown in the excerpt by Audre Lorde in which she states‚ “ For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition‚ and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness‚ the weight of that silence will choke us” ( Lorde 119). In the passage she states‚ that we as a society have kept our voices silence due to fear. She encourages us to speak
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clubs‚ cooperative nurseries‚ cooperative business‚ consumer education groups…” (Bambara 4). Her writing of black women’s consciousness-raising can be used as an example and help me illustrate the consciousness-raising of all women in the movement. In Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is Not a Luxury‚” she makes an analogy between consciousness-raising and writing a poem such that they both require a start of personal experience and
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Music can be seen as an outlet for those who feel they do not have a voice in our society. For world famous Motown singer Sam Cooke “A Change is Going to come” was his vocal outlet of distaste‚ trust and hopefulness of the 1960s. He desired the civil rights movements to bring upon a better more equal world. This hope is encapsulated forever in this song in the line of lyric that calls out saying‚ “But I know a change is gonna come‚ oh yes it will” (Sam Cooke). A simple‚ but powerful line on the state
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