Personal is Political.
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Personal is Political: To My BlackTransSistas: A letter of Healing, Reconciliation, and Love
Kristen Smith writes an open letter to Black transwomen for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "I am not your part-time ally, only serving when acts against you are so...
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Personal is Political: Mushy Carrots
Gaayathri Nair, "I have been integrated, assimilated, subsumed and transformed forever by the experience of growing up other. It is like a chemical reaction, both...
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Personal is Political: Warning: Triggers Ahead
Heather Haskins writes a personal refleciton on sexual abuse, trigger warnings, and Dylan Farrow for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW.
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Personal is Political: Mind the G.A.P.
Erica David, "My mom is down with God Answers Prayers (GAP), and so everything that happens has happened for a reason." #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW
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Personal is Political: Chicana Motherwork
Michelle Téllez writes about Chicana motherwork for #personalIsPoliticalonTFW.
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Personal is Political: My Mother Speaks through My Poetry
Silvia Angulo writes about her relationship with her mother and her desire to write for #personalIsPoliticalonTFW.
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Personal is Political: Tribute to My Teacher and Friend Audre Lorde
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
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Personal is Political: Reconciling Feeling and Thinking: A Call to Action in the Name of Difference
By Rachel Edwards As a student in the first graduate class taught by Aishah Shahidah Simmons dedicated to the study of Audre Lorde’s life and...
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Personal is Political: Audre Speaks: Lordean Lessons for a White Man
By Chris Rupertus The very first thing I say to my seniors on the very first day of the semester is this: “I have a...
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Personal is Political: Meaning to Survive
By Lynn Roberts Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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Personal is Political: Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to Audre Lorde’s Legacy
By Andrew J. Young When Aishah Shahidah Simmons first asked me to submit a piece to The Feminist Wire’s forum on Audre Lorde, I have...
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Personal is Political: Accepting, Nurturing, Celebrating the Black Mother Within
By Ness white “The Black mother who is the poet in every one of us…that back place where we keep those unnamed, untamed longings for...
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Personal is Political: Audre Lorde: Sister Insider
By Pratibha Parmar My own trajectory as a queer, feminist activist and filmmaker has roots in the 1980s when I first came across the writings...
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Personal is Political: Sexual Identity and “Nigerian Culture”
By Adejoke Tugbiyele I was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nigerian parents. Like most children of immigrants, it became clear to me that survival...
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Personal is Political: Open Letter to Dylan Farrow
TRIGGER WARNING: This letter includes descriptions of sexual abuse. Dear Dylan, My father worships Woody Allen. Until I read your letter yesterday, I never understood...
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Personal is Political: Nationhood is Both Inside of Me and Outside of Me
By Lynn Gehl, Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe As an Indigenous woman, I am really grateful for the opportunity to talk about what nationhood means to me. As an...
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Personal is Political: What’s it Like?
By Rosa Cabrera After the first and last time we slept together, she asked, “So what’s it like to be the third?” ...
