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It's a collection of essays.
Chapter 1: Poetry is Not a Luxury: This one is about poetry as a necessity to elucidate with words, hope and dreams as part of a process to turn it into action. "I feel, therefore I am free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demand, the implementation of freedom"
Chapter 2: Uses of the Erotic: Talks about eroticism as feminine power in which it represents internal satisfaction (?) and separates it from pornographic, which is "sensation without feeling". It's about living life to its emotional fullest, bringing out the "eroticism" within us.
Chapter 3: Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House: This one is really good. It's a treatise on how interdependency within a community should highlight differences. "divide and conquer should be define and empower". its mostly a critique on white feminism but i can see this applicable elsewhere
Chapter 4: Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism: this one is a stronger critique against white feminism and how they dont consider people of color. and that anger from people from colour is considered "intimidating" when it should be simply a way to communicate. "If I spoke to you in anger, at least I have spoken to you".
Chapter 5: Learning from the 1960s: Audre Lord mentions the infighting in black communities and advocates to stop horizontal struggle and unite against oppression.
Overall, extremely dense and worth multiple re-reads to truly "get it".
It's a collection of essays.
Chapter 1: Poetry is Not a Luxury: This one is about poetry as a necessity to elucidate with words, hope and dreams as part of a process to turn it into action. "I feel, therefore I am free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demand, the implementation of freedom"
Chapter 2: Uses of the Erotic: Talks about eroticism as feminine power in which it represents internal satisfaction (?) and separates it from pornographic, which is "sensation without feeling". It's about living life to its emotional fullest, bringing out the "eroticism" within us.
Chapter 3: Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House: This one is really good. It's a treatise on how interdependency within a community should highlight differences. "divide and conquer should be define and empower". its mostly a critique on white feminism but i can see this applicable elsewhere
Chapter 4: Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism: this one is a stronger critique against white feminism and how they dont consider people of color. and that anger from people from colour is considered "intimidating" when it should be simply a way to communicate. "If I spoke to you in anger, at least I have spoken to you".
Chapter 5: Learning from the 1960s: Audre Lord mentions the infighting in black communities and advocates to stop horizontal struggle and unite against oppression.
Overall, extremely dense and worth multiple re-reads to truly "get it".