Status Updates From Sister Outsider : esseitä j...

"By ignoring the past, we are encouraged to repeat its mistakes... If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all important question, 'Why?' This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store..."

okay i can tell i’m really really gonna enjoy this
the wording is beautiful, i want to get a physical copy at some point or hear the essays spoken aloud by Audre

i didn’t have a good understanding of who Audre was when i started this but she seems incredible, and i’m excited to learn !