2.02.2022

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Here are a couple of excerpts from a book I recently read, "A Burst of Light and Other Essays," by Audre Lorde.


Racism. Cancer. In both cases, to win the aggressor must conquer, but the resisters need only survive. How do I define that survival and on whose terms?



Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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