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 »
Difference
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged difference, identity on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Differences are a very real part of our contemporary society. We have separated ourselves on various levels. Racial and socio-economic differences have created barriers separating individuals. Furthermore, we have also come to ignore these differences, pretending as if they do not exist. Audre Lorde suggests that these very differences must be embraced and understood in [...]
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