Audre Lorde:“The Master’s Tools Will NeverDismantle the Master’s House

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Audre Lorde:“The Master’s Tools Will NeverDismantle the Master’s House”
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-173

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Audre Lorde (1934–1992) described herself as a “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” She was a prolific essayist and poet and a professor atLehman College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Hunter College. As a panelist at a New York University Institute for the Humanities conference in 1979 focusing on feminism, Lorde addressed the audience on the hypocrisy of feminism and its marginalization of certain sectors of women due to their class, race, sexual orientation, or economic circumstances. She found that the same systems of oppression and patriarchy that feminism espoused to combat ran rampant within feminism itself, and she pointed out evidence of racism and inequality at the conference.

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