Sublime

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine, no matter what.

writing as personal and collective knowledge production by the “female post-colonial cultural Other (particularly the Chicana/mestiza).”

Insight must illuminate the particulars of our lives: who labors to make the bread we waste, or the energy it takes to make nuclear poisons which will not biodegrade for one thousand years; or who goes blind assembling the microtransistors in our inexpensive calculators?

Audre Lorde me ensinou que olhar de frente o que é difícil – que pode ser tanto algo como alguém – é politicamente necessário,

For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those differences.