06/04/2020
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๐ธ๐ด๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐ธ*
๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ป๐ธ๐ฐ๐จ+ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐จ๐๐
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โ ๐'๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ, ๐จ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ โ - ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ (๐๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ; ๐๐ช๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต 2)
Weโre not going to sugarcoat it; ๐ถ๐โ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป, ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป-๐ผ๐ณ-๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ฟ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป nowadays but imagine being all three at a time where these were looked down upon and no one had the right to voice it out.
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๐ was an american writer, a feminist, a librarian, and a civil rights activist. She always described herself as โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ; she dedicated her life and talent in tackling controversial (at the time) issues such as injustice specifically towards to ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐บ, ๐๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐๐บ, ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐บ, ๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐๐บ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ. This strong woman ๐๐๐๐๐๐
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๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
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Lorde famously said, "๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ช๐ณ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ'๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ; ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ โ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฃ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ โ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค ๐ด๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ. ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต."
Audre Lorde ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
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๐๐๐; she also identified issues of race, class, age and ageism, s*x and s*xuality. Later in her life, she tackled issues about chronic illness and disability as she lived her later years with cancer. Audre Lorde wrote these as ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. She made a point that, โ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ.โ and this is true, everyone has different experiences and we can only address issues with authenticity if you have experienced it; that is when you can spread your learnings through experience for everyone to also learn from it.
There has been a lot of causes/awards named after this wonderful woman, such as:
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๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐, an organization in New York City named after Michael Callen and Audre Lorde. An organization dedicated to providing medical health care to the city's LGBT population. Callen-Lorde is the only primary care center in New York City created specifically to serve the LGBT community.
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๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐, founded in 1994, is a Brooklyn-based organization for LGBT people of color. This organization focuses on community organizing and radical non-violent activism around cumulative issues within NYC; especially issues relating to LGBT, AIDS, HIV, pro-immigration, prison reform, and organizing among the youth of color.
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, an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honor works of le***an poetry, first presented in 2001.
So, next time youโve been dis-empowered by a White Cis-Person for being yourself (whether youโre black, woman, or q***r, or all three) ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐
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