“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference— those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older— know that survival is not an academic skill.”
—Audre Lorde; The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.
Rereading this a hefty reminder of my own privilege- a call to reinvigorate my theoretical noodling with action, to note that the very abstractness of my thought points to my position.
