Sister Outsider lives up very much to its title. To be fair, I see why she is so quotable-though I’m not sure the quotations I will share in this review are the ones a white girl would wear on a T-shirt. So after thirty-two years of existence on this plane, I decided I should probably get around to reading something by Audre Lorde, you know? Then I can put a quote of hers on a T-shirt (just kidding). One of the insidious aspects of whiteness is how it appropriates the radical language of oppressed people (just look at the evolution of the word woke) and distorts it. Every time I see a quotation from Lorde or another prominent Black activist on a T-shirt, I cringe. Audre Lorde is one of those people whom we white people find so quotable yet seldom do we stop to listen to her words (we have done this to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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