Tag: Audre Lorde
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Keep Audre Lorde’s uses of anger and Focus!
I am angry. As a proud NIH F-31 predoctoral scholar here is why we all need to FOCUS! There are many uses of anger. Many as Audre Lorde once eloquently shared. This is an attempt to share tools on how to use your anger, even if bruised or battered. Use it to move on. Use…
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Keep reflecting!
Oppression hoped that I would not have a community. Hoped that I would not have a legion. Hoped that I would be all alone. Yet a community and a legion meant that I didn’t do this alone. I joined a reflexive writing group this evening. My first. I have been writing reflexively here for the…
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Keep dreaming!
We stood at the edge of decision recently, one crucial and alone. We refused to indulge another moment of failed dreams. We have seen seasons come and go. We have looked inward and outward to make sense of the day. Now, we want to breed futures full of dreams. Now we are like bread on…
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Keep the sweetness of life!
I am basking in the words of Audre Lorde these days. In her short essay oh how she intended to live the rest of her life while battling liver cancer, she shared the following I will keep forever: ‘I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness…
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Keep knowing what you will keep and happy birthday Audre Lorde!
I remember reading these lines from Audre Lorde years ago, in a letter she once wrote to a friend, that it is ‘out of chaos that new worlds are born.’ For the past two years, I have been moving past so many boundaries I once set for myself through words. Of course the pandemic was…
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Keep change with life lessons!
Who are the bearers of messages most important to our lives? How are they helping you actively work for change? For me these days, black authors. I find myself reading and reading books from authors who voices are amplified more so in death than while alive. Audre Lorde first comes to mind. Her words have…
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Keep being a burst of light for public health!
I am in the business of light making. It is messy, very complex with turns that keep winding. When rich countries get 40-60 percent of Covid vaccines and others, especially countries in Africa, get only 3%, you will understand why I choose light. When racism, especially structural racism is at the heart of why we…
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Keep being light!
Audre Lorde once shared in her phenomenal book Sister Outsider ‘that the quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which…
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Keep transforming silence into action!
What are the things you wish to change for yourself? What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What hurt, or pain, or emotions do you swallow day by day? What sickens you, even kills you, still in silence? These words from Audre Lorde’s essay on transforming silence…
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