What is considered “normal” within any given society? Within Audre Lorde’s essay Age, Race, Class, and Sex, she explains how one view of the world is through eyes of what should happen and what someone should look like. By doing this they create this assumption of normality as the ideal and everything else as [...]
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What is normal anyway?
Posted in activism, feminism, theory, tagged acceptance, Audre Lorde, difference, equality, Sister Outsider on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A New Definition of the Erotic
Posted in feminism, tagged activism, Audre Lorde, Erotic on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Audre Lorde defines the erotic in an interesting way: “When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowlege and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history our dancing, our loving, our work, our [...]
The Stolen Erotic
Posted in art, feminism, tagged Abstract Expressionism, Audre Lorde, Erotic, Hauns Hoffman, Jackson Polluck, Lee Kraser on February 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This semester, I am enrolled in a Contemporary Art History class. During the second lecture of this course, our professor introduced Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner. I assumed what would be most memorable about Lee’s story would be her work, but what I ended up taking away from this lecture was much more. Instead of her [...]
Art Waits For No Woman
Posted in art, tagged art, Audre Lorde, language, Shirin Neshat on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I heard that Shirin Neshat was coming to New Orleans, I had no idea who she was. So I went to hear her speak, interested in both the title of her talk “Women Without Men” and her artistic work. Right away she started talking about the artist’s conversation between the personal and the public [...]
The Place of Theory in Change
Posted in feminism, theory, tagged Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One question continues to be asked in my women’s studies classes: This theory is interesting, but what do we do now? How does the theorist want us to fix this problem? This issue generally arises when discussing the work of more utopian or abstract theorists, like Shulamith Firestone and Audre Lorde. We seem to be [...]
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