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audre lorde x adrienne rich x june jordan - what interesting content!!!!!!!! what a gift to be able to read

“When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed, but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

Diaspora specifically means “the scattering of seeds/spores on the wind”

“The guardians of the border, the gatekeepers. The gender outlaws. The black people most vulnerable to the violence of a deadly and homophobic gender binary.”

“Some words are open, like a diamond on glass windows, singing out within the crash of passing sun.” Audre Lorde, coal

“Of course a honey bee can fly, it’s easy. All she has to do is shake the air around her into a million, tiny hurricanes.”

“Sometimes, existence is empowerment.”

Audre and June Jordan’s friendship ended bc June felt unsupported by Audre during the public feuds with Rich over Palestine. Adrienne Rich and Jordan later reconciled and wrote letters “agreeing to fight about things they believe in rather than never talk again” and Rich acted as an intermediary between Lorde and Jordan, trying to reconnect them + sharing details about their lives. They never reconnected

“Typewriters travelled wherever colonialism travelled. In countries colonized by Britain, like Kenya and India, typewriters arrived with colonial offices. Eventually, those typewriters, replaced by updated models, made their way into communities under colonial control.”