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Wednesday Wreading: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider:  Essays and Speeches
by
Audre Larde

Two essays from the book’s collection are linked below.

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power*

When we look away from the importance of the erotic in the development and sustenance of our power, or when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

Today, with the defeat of ERA, the tightening economy, and increased conservatism, it is easier once again for white women to believe the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace, at least until a man needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along.

 

 

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